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That depends on who you are. Most notably, political campaigns use polls to decide where it’s most useful to spend their money. It’s also relevant to people who
by NineStarPoint 6y ago
That depends on who you are. Most notably, political campaigns use polls to decide where it’s most useful to spend their money. It’s also relevant to people who want to donate time/money and betting markets.
It also may have an effect on turnout and peoples votes, but that’s a lot more wooly.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoRight, but political campaigns have their own polling organizations. They don't rely on outsiders to tell them what's going on.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Right, but political campaigns have their own polling organizations. “Internal” polls are polls that the campaign has contracted a polling organization, quite often an organization that does its own (or is contracted by media outlets to do) public polling, as well. Political campaigns are comparatively ephemeral, they don't have time to build polling organizations from scratch.