How the polls inflate the Dems

American Thinker ^ | 31 Aug, 2026 | J.R. Dunn

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The venerable Dick Morris this week revealed that the manipulation of polling data goes even deeper than many of us thought.

We’ve all been long aware (though many tend to ignore it in practice) that the polls have been corrupted to the point of worthlessness. It has become standard among many (myself among them) to add 3 to 5% to all poll results for the GOP – the higher the better, usually – which in many cases gives totals very close to real-world results. This was reinforced this summer by the scandals involving primary poll results involving Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed, who was given double-digit leads in the Michigan Democrat senatorial primary but barely eked out a 1% victory, and the Florida Democrat senatorial primary, in which ex-military hustler Alexander Vindman held a polling lead of nearly twenty points but lost to socialist Angie Nixon by 12 points. Only world-class naivety can excuse dependence on polls from this point on.

But it’s not only results. There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, and the pollsters have used considerable ingenuity in assuring that numbers say the right things about the right people.

Morris, who could look healthier, reports on a study by Patrick Ruffini at Echelon Insights. Ruffini analyzed the results of several hundred polls taken during congressional election campaigns over the years. He discovered that pollsters have been regularly overstating the numbers for Democrat candidates in the months leading up to the election, with emphasis on the summer months. Then, during the final weeks of the campaign, the pollsters carefully “ratchet back” their results, bringing them into sync with the actual voter sentiment going into election day. “They’re wrong in July and August,” Dick tells us, “then they get more and more correct as September and

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Some Dems and Some Republicans are honest about their issues
Of these some R, some D choose the best words & phrases to communicate their ideas.
Of these some R, some D choose words that are not effective for their goals.

Some Dems and Some Republicans are NOT HONEST about their issues. Example: We live in a MIXED ECONOMY. 1/2 Capitalist and 1/2 Government controlled with much of that being socialist. We will ALWAYS live in a mixed economy. The issue is HOW MUCH should be Capitalist? How much should be Socialist? On all sides, many are not honest about this.