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e, why is that interesting that four pollsters out of the many, many pollsters have decided to create their own little organization? Why would they do that? Well, here are the pollsters: Big Data Poll, Insider Advantage, Trafalgar Group, and Rasmussen. Now if you're a real nerd and you really watch your politics, you know where this is heading. But for the rest of you, let me tell you what this means.

These four are the ones who are calling out the other pollsters for being frauds. Rasmussen, of course, has been doing it for a long time, but these are all top 10 pollsters who tend to be accurate and not gaming the system. So I believe their claim will be that these are four you can depend on and all the rest are likely to be gaming the system especially for the political stuff.

So I feel like this is a big move because if one pollster says oh those other ones seem fraudulent, how much are you going to pay attention to it? But if there's an organization of pollsters, they have organized specifically because of the ones who are not frauds and they're calling out the rest of them in the industry for being frauds. That's got a little bit of weight behind it. So that could get interesting next time there's a political poll.

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