"they were too scared they'd be marked by the looney left and set upon"
There was a lot of unwillingness to respond to pollsters with the 'you will pay' mentality of the TDS on full display but good pollsters took that into account.
The non-media b.s. pollsters called almost every state accurately, aside from the ones where the cities stopped counting in the middle of the night and literally backed the van up/dragged boxes from under tables.
The b.s. media polls had one purpose, to drive the narrative. They knew that their jobs didn't depend on being accurate. They were the equivalent of Roy Morgan in Australia.
