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Fox News Pollster Braun Research Misrepresented Impeachment Poll: Analysis
The New York Post ^ | 10/12/2019 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 10/12/2019 7:23:34 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...

The poll released last week by Fox News that claimed most Americans favor the impeachment of President Trump underrepresented Republicans and Independents, The Post has found.

The poll said 51% of voters were in favor of impeachment and removal from office, while 40% did not want him impeached.

Princeton New Jersey pollster Braun Research, which conducted the survey, noted 48% of its respondents were Democrats. But the actual breakdown of party affiliation is 31% Democrat, 29% Republican, and 38% Independent, according to Gallup.

A poll weighted for party affiliation would have concluded that 44.9% favored impeachment and 44.4% oppose it, a Post analysis has concluded.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020elections; boom; braking; braunresearch; corruption; demlite; elections; fakenews; fakepoll; foxnews; impeachment; mediabias; poll; polls; postedseveraltimes; scandal; scandals; sidebarabuse; trump
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A statistical tie based upon margin of error.
1 posted on 10/12/2019 7:23:34 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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This is one of the reasons Shep is gone. This is ruiness to their reputation.


2 posted on 10/12/2019 7:26:15 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Isn’t NY Post also owned by NewsCorp, owner of Fox News?


3 posted on 10/12/2019 7:26:39 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: All

Somewhere is a business that once had CNN on all the time, but has now slowly begun to feel comfortable with Fox News on.


4 posted on 10/12/2019 7:28:41 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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Good that the Post took the trouble to perform an assessment and publish the results.


6 posted on 10/12/2019 7:29:37 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: DarthVader

...ruinous...


7 posted on 10/12/2019 7:30:55 PM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: DarthVader

But Shep was also ruiness to his own reputation.

I guess he grew tired of the ever-present double whammy.


8 posted on 10/12/2019 7:31:53 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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I’ll beat you to it, Windflier.

I knew in my gut it was spelled differently but did it anyway.

Ruinous...


9 posted on 10/12/2019 7:34:47 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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RE: A poll weighted for party affiliation would have concluded that 44.9% favored impeachment and 44.4% oppose it

This still tells me that about half of the country want Trump removed from office.

Nothing much has changed since 2016. This country is as divided as ever.


10 posted on 10/12/2019 7:35:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Thanks. But I tell you the spellchecker on this system makes weird changes and this is not the first time.


11 posted on 10/12/2019 7:36:57 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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MSM polls are meant to shape public opinion NOT to reflect it. No MSM poll regarding the 2016 election was even close.

Even after so-called attenuation to normalize sampling.

Reason, most people who support President Trump do not respond to pollster calls. And, many who do LIE to the pollsters as a FU to them.

Same applies to Exit polls. We simply do not cooperate. So, those polls are off base and more importantly, they are meaningless.


12 posted on 10/12/2019 7:42:18 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (Lurking since the late 90's. Recently retired. No tagline yet.)
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"A statistical tie based upon margin of error."

Yes. Not only that, but I know of no statistical methodology to justify the false report based on over-sampling Democrats. I think Trump calls it "fake news".

The question remaining is, what recourse do we or Trump have in order to put a stop to this garbage? The malicious intent should be obvious.

13 posted on 10/12/2019 7:46:58 PM PDT by William Tell
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“A poll weighted for party affiliation would have concluded that 44.9% favored impeachment and 44.4% oppose it, a Post analysis has concluded.”

Which is still bad ... particularly if 44.9% favor impeachment AND removal from office.


14 posted on 10/12/2019 7:51:09 PM PDT by plain talk
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But I tell you the spellchecker on this system makes weird changes and this is not the first time.

this system (if you mean FR) has no spellchecker.        the problem is all yours.


15 posted on 10/12/2019 7:53:42 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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35% is the absolutists


16 posted on 10/12/2019 8:00:47 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Isn’t NY Post also owned by NewsCorp, owner of Fox News?

Interesting. Murdoch owns both.

17 posted on 10/12/2019 8:19:21 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SeekAndFind

And your point?

OF Course Democrats want Trump Impeached, Removed, Assassinated, Dead from Cancer, WHATEVER, to have him not be President.

Who is surprised?


18 posted on 10/12/2019 8:24:37 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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Also of note... if you correct the weights, Trump and Biden are tied.


19 posted on 10/12/2019 8:33:08 PM PDT by dangus
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“this system (if you mean FR) has no spellchecker. the problem is all yours. “

Yes, there is spell checker on the posting box
Three buttons:
Spell/Preview/Post

Just above the “Word Wrap On” button


20 posted on 10/12/2019 9:03:39 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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