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by eftpotrm 2742 days ago
Political polling is a tiny percentage of their business; they mostly do market research for corporates.

Every few years, polls get verified against reality at the ballot box. If you're running a polling company, would you want to sell your market research as the company whose polls were some way off the votes they'd just seen counted because you were trying to influence the electorate?