Controversial opinion: it’s a political party’s own responsibility to attract voters. If a party loses an election, it’s not because of some grand conspiracy theory of people being manipulated into not voting for you. It’s because your politics fucking sucks.
Margin of error assumes the sampling is random and representative, which of course is very hard to achieve in practice and especially with a laughably small sample size. Not really some magic number of truth as you’d like to present it.
That’s a sample of a few hundred people in an online poll. Not the most convincing evidence
Proof that people abstaining from voting dem resulted in trump winning?
Understood almost immediately by taking the context into consideration.