https://www.axios.com/2024/10/30/election-gen-z-voting-lies

The very current Molière Citation is awarded to the election poll liars for keeping the hype going on speculation about who will get their votes.

It seems that we have stumbled on a perverted game of “Truth or Dare” among the pollsters, the people surveyed, and the media.

It’s a vicious circle of misinformation, both deliberate and inadvertent, among the folks who run the surveys, the media outlets who pay for them, and the cynical folks who (apparently) want to show how inexact the system is.

We suppose it sells newspapers, to keep the plates of prediction spinning, and keep the masses interested in anything other than a landslide.

And perhaps some grudging admiration is due to the Gen Z youngsters who show their disdain for the polls and media by flat out lying (when anyone asks them how they are going to vote).

Under the circumstances, it’s no wonder that the 4th estate (and by extension, their pollsters) are held in such low regard that their approval numbers are down in the range of the approval numbers for the Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court.

On reflection, the Molière Citations team would have to bestow the Citation on the parasitic pollsters, who are at the epicenter of the outlandish game of “this, but that” predictions.

One of the lower circles of the underworld is no doubt reserved for the political pollsters, who rank among the pathological purveyors of imprecision — along with meteorologists, movie critics, and the people who answer the phone when we call to find out if the flight we are meeting to pick up friends and family is coming in on time.

To be sure, there is plenty of blame to go around.

But today we’ll choose a joint award to the devils from the polling industry and the young voters who lie to them (making the same claim as Flip Wilson’s Josephine: “The devil made me do it!”)