Polls are dumb.

I stumbled across this gem on Twitter today. 

No link. No supporting data. Just a side note that it's from BerkeleyISG. Now, I don't think anyone will claim Berkeley is an unbiased organization so I fired up the google. I found the poll referenced in the above tweet and took a look at it. This is the breakdown of respondents to their online poll and how they voted.

Some takeaways here in relation to polls being stupid. There were 100 respondents. One hundred. They were also all from California, a state that leans left. Of these 100 people, 48 identified as Democrats to only 26 Republican. 41 identified as Liberal to only 28 Conservative. 71 were from Coastal counties (historically more left leaning) vs 29 from the more historically right leaning inland counties. Almost half were from San Francisco or LA. This poll had a predetermined outcome. Biden was going to come out ahead by no less than 25 points. It's also irrelevant. The Democrats could nominate a convicted cannibal who refuses to wear a shirt in public and California is going to vote Democrat. California hasn't been won by a Republican since 1988 and it won't be this year. Posting an isolated portion of the poll without context or even mentioning it was only California voters polled is irresponsible and/or intentional propaganda. To put it in layman's terms, it's bullshit and a waste of money. Give me the same funding and two weeks and I will give you an anonymous online poll of 100 people that shows Trump winning nationally by 15 points. Be smarter people. Stay safe and Go Cubs Go.