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So What Is Going On With Polls All This Year?,Biden Always Ahead?,Never Once Trump Is Ahead? Are The "Powers That Be" Ordering All Pollsters/Networks What To Report?

Posted on 10/15/2020 3:41:27 PM PDT by TealsGuy17

And what is going on with Fox? Remember way back? Maybe it was in August when they were reporting that Biden had a 9 or 10 point lead. Yet, Biden rarely campaigned and never took questions. Even Rush Limbaugh brought this up a few weeks back. Rush pretty much knew what was going on with the fake polls that would never give Trump a lead, not even a two point lead. We all know what's going on out there. And so many listeners on Rush have called in to speak of this matter. They cannot figure out why Biden is ahead. Yah, we all know what's going on in the MSM. When they say Biden is up by 12, it's most likely that it's Donald Trump that is actually up by 12.


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To: TealsGuy17

I figure it’s to be expected with the bad year Trump has had, and the country. And how the 2018 election went. And with doubling down to appeal to his base instead of trying to expand his base etc


41 posted on 10/15/2020 4:35:08 PM PDT by Nomad577
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To: TealsGuy17

Media polls exist to shape opinions not to reflect them.


42 posted on 10/15/2020 4:38:47 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon (You can numb you got the plate OK thanks)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“And lets face it, you don’t answer polls when you are not home.”


Most people I know do the same as I do - they screen all of their calls, most particularly near elections (pollsters and people asking for campaign donations) and before Christmas (everyone and his uncle asking for money). It seems like 70% of my calls are coming in from toll-free numbers, and about 3/4 of the rest from numbers and people that I don’t recognize.


43 posted on 10/15/2020 4:40:01 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: TealsGuy17

Gaslighting


44 posted on 10/15/2020 4:45:49 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: UB355

All it really does is give Democrats a reason to not make the effort to vote since “Biden has it in the bag”. These polls only serve to motivate Republicans to get out and vote in person.


45 posted on 10/15/2020 4:48:00 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: TealsGuy17

I do not recall a Republican presidential candidate ever being ahead in the polls.


46 posted on 10/15/2020 4:48:22 PM PDT by fso301
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To: nbenyo

IBD/TIPP got 2016 right. They are doing a tracker poll this year and the number changes every day. Was B+10 the other day; today B+8. Next week?

All the polls over the last 10 days all have what is called “response bias” in them. Candidate supporters disengage after a crisis (in this case, 3 crises...SC nom, debate, Trump covid hysteria caused by a media meltdown.) Which is why good pollsters try to wait for calm after the crisis before going out in the field.

This pollster (Democracy Initiative) is very good...got 2016 right and Brexit...:-) He says it is T+1

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1343305/US-election-poll-donald-trump-coronavirus-covid-joe-biden-exclusive-polling

But, in any case, in a week or so many pollsters will be “herding.” That is when they deliberately move their numbers to be close to where other polls are.


47 posted on 10/15/2020 4:49:14 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: desertfreedom765

I sure as hell don’t! Trump by a comfortable margin.


48 posted on 10/15/2020 4:55:16 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Narrow? He had 307 EVs 2016. 37 EVs over minimum.


49 posted on 10/15/2020 5:32:31 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Repeal The 17th

Helmet Northrup Model predicts Electoral College: Trump - 362 and Biden - 172. It has had very good predictive results including Trump win in 2016.


50 posted on 10/15/2020 5:52:01 PM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: ripnbang

Yep but didn’t he win Michigan by 10,000 votes? Democrats will make sure Biden gets 100,000 extra votes from Detroit alone


51 posted on 10/15/2020 5:57:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Ancesthntr

well sure, that’s true. But that wouldn’t explain why liberals would be more likely not to screen pollsters out. My explanation explains that because of COVID, a disproportionate number of liberals are home along with the few Republicans that are scared. This is making the polls a poll of those scared of Covid, and not of the electorate in general.


52 posted on 10/15/2020 6:02:20 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Partisan Media Shills regurgitate DNC talking points. That's gonna burn them at the ballot box, and in their steady decline as they circle the white wishing well and slide down to the cloaca maxima.

53 posted on 10/16/2020 8:05:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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