FOX NEWS Materially Skews Poll Results by Undersampling Independent Voters

TTG ^ | 10/2/2020 | Evan

[wrrock]

This Article Explains

1. How undersampling significantly affects poll results with the latest FOX NEWS poll.
2. How to unskew polls and get an estimate of actual poll results.

Read How Some Polls Are Manipulated...

[SmokingJoe]

Nobody takes Fox News polls seriously. I doubt if even the Bden campaign does. They are not that stupid. I think Fox gives their polls to Chris Wallace to apply his special formula to it, before they release it.

[FreedBird]

Wallace should be President. He thinks he knows all the answers. He has made a living out of misleading viewers.

[outofsalt]

I emailed foxnews today asking them to get rid of all Chris’. Mathews and Stirewalt make me change the channel.

[SmokingJoe]

I am not sure if you are familiar with the Charles Dickens character Uriah Heep in “Great Expectations”. That’s who Smarmy Wallace reminds me of.

[outofsalt]

I don’t identify as republican (democrat or independent being the other choices). I identify as conservative.
Would that effect polling demographics? I don’t ever get polled, sooo, there’s that.

[SmokingJoe]

Thanks for trying, but smarmy creeps like Wallace kiss enough ass to survive in corporate executive environments. I am sure you've probably come across such smirking creeps in some company that you've worked for.

[SmokingJoe]

Thanks for trying, but smarmy creeps like Wallace kiss enough ass to survive in corporate executive environments. I am sure you’ve probably come across such smirking creeps in some company that you’ve worked for.

[outofsalt]

Some are released from their contracts if enough folks opine.

[HighSierra5]

Fux News.

[SmokingJoe]

True.

[plangent]

Sampling is kept in the dark. WHERE are they sampling? Earlier this week a pollster told Rush that one technique is to sample Republicans only in never-trump suburbs while avoiding pro-Trump Democrat areas. Their internals never tell you where the samples are taken from.

[bray]

Stirewalt and Rove control the polls for Fox.

[bray]

Watching NewMax, what a great network.

[sauropod]

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[Orlando]

Same here...watching newsmax

[littleharbour]

The Faux News Channel

[Parley Baer]

The Fox News polls are among the worst.

[Thud]

The best way to interpret national political polls is to put them in the trash. Decades of junk telephone calls have destroyed cheap polling. The only way to get accurate polls these days is to spend enormous amounts of money on them, and only national presidential campaigns have enough of that (or zillionaires like Trump and Bloomberg).

Polls commissioned by the news media are done on such meager budgets that they can't be accurate even if the media wants them to be, and they don't.

The most polls commissioned by news media can show are trends, and that requires at least an attempt to make them accurate. The media has no interest in accurate polls. They want poll results that will help their favored candidates, and the polls are just cover for their desired results.