Obviously something went very, very wrong with the polls in the OH/PA/MI region. We kept getting told Ohio was close, yet Trump won by almost double digits.
““The folks who would talk to a stranger about politics just aren’t representative of people who wouldn’t,” he said.”
Actually, republicans are less likely to talk to a stranger about politics because of the abusive incivility that Dems are so proud to display when others don’t agree with them. Dems are proud of their abusive incivility - they feel they’ve won the culture war by screaming “bigot” when they encounter the market place of ideas. And here they are in this OP, still as clueless as ever. Suits me fine - let them wander in the wilderness...
They still don't get it.
It appears that they are saying that if a person doesn't have a 4 year degree they are "uneducated". Not "less educated" or "having only graduated from high school". Uneducated.
I doubt calling such folks idiots (in so many words) is going to cause many of them to vote for a party that holds them in such low regard.
They ignore, marginalize and stigmatize the “white rural” population, and then wonder why these good folks don’t play ball? LOL!
People who are left unprotected by the government have to protect themselves.
...Or because they don't want to help you 'liberal' arseholes defeat their candidate by alerting you to your weaknesses.
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That is excellent news, and I hope the trend keeps growing. Polls have long been used to influence elections. The sooner people stop having strong belief in the infallibility of polls, the better. This is also a good weapon against vote fraud--if the polls are inaccurate, the Democrats will not know how many votes to manufacture to guarantee a win.
Democrats aren’t ready to prescribe remedies yet, but officials at the national party committees are sending strong signals that they plan to hold pollsters to a higher standard in the upcoming midterm elections.
I would humbly suggest that the Democrats start caring about the country and doing those things that best preserve freedom. And stop devising policies meant to trap people in unending poverty. I know that the Dems have conditioned poor people to vote for them and will happily keep them entrapped in slums forever--but dang, that is so inhumane.
Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, who is chairing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the second consecutive election cycle, ruffled feathers last month when he suggested that “unreliable pollsters will not be invited back to the DCCC.”
This, in a nutshell, encapsulates the arrogant attitude of this article, and, indeed, of liberal (i.e. mainstream) media. The Democrats do *not* have a right to our votes. If we do not choose to vote Democrat, it is *not* an aberration against the natural order of things. But to listen to the liberal media, one would think that the only way to vote is Democrat, and that no real person would ever vote otherwise. Hence, in liberal land, those not voting Democrat are outsiders not worthy of being considered human.
The democrats still don’t get it. The pre-election polling was fake. They were designed to create the impression that Clinton was going to win, in the hope that creating that impression would create that reality. I think the liberal establishment believed their own fake polls and let their election fraud slip a little bit. Hopefully the democrats will continue to delude themselves until the next presidential election. Then when they reach out to all of us uneducated Trump voting hicks in fly over country we can tell them how disappointed we are with Trump and that we plan on voting for the democrat candidate, it will be fun to watch what that does to their polling.
The Progs will never get it. You lost the election for one reason. You ran a sack of crap, lying, corrupt, criminal, Hillary Clinton.
And now, all that political inbreeding has exposed them as the irrational humans that they are.
Either that, or Democrats have been photo-shopped in and it has all been a joke.
I always lie to pollsters.
When they are automated, I am a 43 year old, hispanic, demonRAT, lesbian, that hates Trump and loves hildabitch and hiawatha.
The other side of the failed polling results by sampling by state population, i.e. kalifornicator and ny will always skew the results toward the demonRATS, but pollsters don't adjust them because that is the result that they want to see.
These dumb bastards fool themselves...on purpose.
>> The party didn’t just lose among rural white voters on Election Day
The Democrat Thug Party got hammered. And whatever ‘winning’ support it garnered came from the illegal urban vote.
The vast majority of counties in New York went for Trump.
You know--Those people that DemocRATS despise.
If you look at it from a “makers and takers” perspective, the Democrats offer nothing to the makers, or those who want to be makers. Statistically, there are more takers than makers, so Dems still have a chance, provided they can get the takers to the polls.
Emotionally mature people never answer phone calls from strangers, especially pollsters. Liberal moonbats, on the other hand, will trip over each other to take a phone call from anyone. There’s your blind spot.
“The folks who would talk to a stranger about politics just aren’t representative of people who wouldn’t”
When people are labeled “ignorant racists” whenever they deviate from the Democrat Party Line, they tend not to answer political questions from strangers. This article makes the ignorant, racist assumption that these people are all ignorant racists, i.e., in Leftspeak, “rural white people without college degrees”.
This started way back: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067223/President-Obamas-2012-campaign-abandons-white-working-class-voters-favor-minorities-educated.html
This is a slur that many salesmen have used for decades. When the person say something like “my dad always drove a Chevrolet” the salesman comes back with something like, “let me guess that he probably had a high school diploma or less. A GED? We see that Chevrolet is very popular among those without higher education.”
Mattresses, cars, life insurance all have been sold by implying that the competitor’s adherents are ignorant, uneducated people.
Ignore it. Its just a tactic.