It used to be in Australia that politicians aimed for underdog status.
Now the left and ABC are singing to the US choir sheet "Our Guy is Winning"
We will have to wait, but polls put Biden clearly ahead.
Do polls matter? do they have any relevance.
Do people lie when asked about their voting intentions. Clearly yes.
People lie to tell the questioner what they want to hear.
"They don't want lefty abuse"
But have to agree @copperroad "The ABC got all the major political events wrong for the last 5 years. The so called 'elites' are looking like monkeys with a chip on their shoulders.
It must be hard for the inner city echo chambers to know what the real community is thinking.
On the job, I would take cadet journalists on the street to do a poll.
It was always some local issue, swim pool, potholes walk tracks - never politics.
Great training to get these 20 year olds from uni asking strangers.