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   Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 11:43:16 JST Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

   What's one lesson that you learned from 2016 that you would like young people who are able to vote now but were too young to be engaged in 2016 to know?

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     Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 15:22:31 JST Weird Socks

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     @BlackAzizAnansi
     Ignore #polls as much as you can.

     I got out the vote in the past several elections before 2016. In 2016 I saw polls saying things like it was 98% certain Clinton would win. For the first time in years, I decided not to go help because of that.

     That was a mistake.

     Polls did actually used to be somewhat meaningful and predictive but that stopped being true sometime before 2016. I missed that change.