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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by bojan on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:22AM (#39603782)
> Honestly, if you talk to real people within the EU, you'll find that maybe half of them are mostly against the EU.

The polling seems to be proving you wrong. Even in the UK the attitude towards the EU seems to be net positive.

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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by willmadden on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:48AM (#39604108)
That is because most polling is not a representative sample of peoples' beliefs and is untrustworthy. The "mainstream" polling and coverage of Brexit is a great example, or the polling and coverage around the 2016 US presidential election.
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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by graemep on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:46AM (#39604916)
Time to mention the Yes Prime Minister clip on polling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U

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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by willmadden on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:24PM (#39661797)
Perfect video. Youtube is blocking it outside of the UK. VPN with UK exit IP seems to work.
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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by TheMagicHorsey on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:56AM (#39604208)
How’d that work out for you with the Brexit vote? Still placing your undivided faith in polls by people that benefit from presenting a particular ideology as being popular?
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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by bojan on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:29AM (#39604626)
It's a sort of a myth that Brexit polling got it wrong [1]. There was a visible surge for Leave just before the referendum, and the result did not surprise me.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Unit...

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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by carlosjobim on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:32AM (#39603927)
I wrote "if you talk to people", which is different from what a poll might say. Yes, it's anecdotal.
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Re:Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for goo... by piva00 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:27AM (#39614015)
I talk to people here in the EU, and most of my anecdotes support the EU, even the ones with reservations regarding it.

So anecdotes don't matter in this discussion.

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