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If this is the case, they have to publish the polling data that led them to believe it. Otherwise there's no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
On what planet do you think that American politicians "have to" do anything? They regularly break the law. It's a bicameral system and until you riot or DDD it won't change.
Also, your statement makes the assumption that the complexity lies solely in polling and voting, but politics is more complex than that. Israel is a nuclear power. For all we (civilians) know, they can be a regular destabilizing threat actor for the West, have damning blackmail that threatens the DNC, or has enough high powered offensive hacking actors that the US sees its alliance as more important than its ethics
By the way, this entire system of incentives illustrates the complexity of politics in a way that ought to dismiss any kind of black-or-white argument about really any political topic, including the (in my limited opinion, valid) condemnation of Trump.
Who wants to change the bicameral system? Is that a new popular trend? What's the better alternative?
I live in England, that would be a good starting point for your Google search
The US bicameral system is the House and the Senate (a two chamber legislature).
What system is the better alternative that we should riot about? You said it and I'm just asking you to explain.
Oh excuse me. I'm using "the bicameral system" to refer to "the way representation works in USA". A more accurate and relevant way to point to the bad part would be "the two party system", since in fact you could reasonably have a bicameral congress with proportional representation