Lament of the Mind

youngermorebeautifulqueen:

omg-its-myra-b:

Guys. This is no longer funny. This is real. This is happening. Unless we band together and vote and make a difference, Donald Trump is on a one-way street to being the next President of the United States. If you think this isn’t a big deal, you’re wrong. If you think this won’t affect you, you’re wrong. If you think our country isn’t in dire trouble, you are WRONG. Please PLEASE do something. Campaign for candidates who will do some good. Do some research on Bernie Sanders or Ben Carson. Above all, VOTE. Don’t think it doesn’t matter. Your one vote could make all the difference.

I’m not going to tell you not to vote. Voting is majorly majorly important. But polls are basically bullshit. NPR recently did an article on polling, and you know why Trump is so far ahead? Because basically the only people who can be polled these days are people with landlines. The majority of the population is not represented in polls. (Say, you know us young people who only have cell phones.) So when you see something like this, remember polls are “not meaningless, but you have to take them with a few hefty grains of salt.”