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Check out question 5(ii) here (PDF, and solutions). The question of reliability hinges on the difference between accuracy and precision. "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
Your point of course is entirely true for the more widely used "random sample" method, but in the case of French polls, its more accurate to say merely that the problem of screening to remove bias seeks to increase the accuracy of the result at the expense of reducing the precision of the poll.
But in fact we can't use "margin of error" to assess that precision, which is why I am convinced that things remain wide open for Sunday's result.
Not that "margin of error" means anything if there are more than two possible (yes/no) answers. "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
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