Seeing Past The Narratives – Two Election Points to Remember…

Conservative Treehouse ^ | November 2, 2020 | Sundance

[CheshireTheCat]

There is a great deal of manipulation and falsehood in media presentation of the 2020 election. These lies and false constructs generate a great deal of anxiety. That said, there are two specific approaches by the narrative engineers that deserve a strong reminder.

♦The first purposeful approach media use to create and embed their false assumptions is a slight of hand that few notice, and it can create anxiety. In normal term-two election cycles the baseline for media analysis should be the incumbent electoral win in term one.

The accurate baseline should be what states the incumbent (Trump) won in the prior 2016 election. From that position the analysis should then discuss what states the challenger (Biden) needs to take in order to win. The reason is simple, the incumbent already has a track record -so the assumption should be on retention of the previous outcome. However, with President Trump the media doesn’t do this.

The media now position President Trump’s opposition Joe Biden as if he has already won states and Trump needs to win them back. Essentially they flip the baseline to build upon their skewed and false polling narratives. They never did this with any prior elections.

In Obama’s 2012 term-two race he was assumed to have support in all the states he won in 2008, and Mitt Romney had to overcome states Obama was ‘holding’....

♦ The next issue to remind yourself about is “Exit Polling.”

All exit polling is pushed by media in their effort to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. The election year media polling is already skewed with manipulated outcomes; they do the same thing with the exit polling, only they do it on election day in rapid succession....

[CheshireTheCat]

I think if I should be lucky enough to run into an exit pollster, I will tell them I am a registered Demonrat who voted R for the first time in my life because my job is threatened if the country goes back into lockdown and I already can't afford the increase in taxes it is going to take to make up for lost tax revenue lo this past few months.

Then I will walk up the street to the wine bar instead of going directly to my car, unless they can't see me get in my car from where they are standing.

I will wear a mask while standing in line outside--if there are exit pollsters to hide my identify from.

[cgbg]

Excellent article..to summarize...

Ignore the lying leftist propaganda enemy media f&^%ing exit polls.

That goes _double_ for Fox “f&^% you deplorables” “News” which has a Democratic operative running their election desk.

Any FReeper who starts citing them on election night will have _me_ to deal with....and you do _not_ want to go there...

;-)

[arthurus]

Sleight of hand

[Presbyterian Reporter]

The media and the democrats can yell all they want, but at the end of the day Trump will win the states in won in 2016 and in 2020 will add to the list.

[arthurus]

Fox News is working hard to sidle over into CNN territory. Their biggest probleem with that is the contracts they have with Hannity and Carlson et al. They could just gin up a sex scandal as with O’Reilly but there is at least one businessman among them who cautions them that their ratings will also sidle over to CNN’s level and they don’t have a billionaire at the top likely to bail them out.

[Dundee]

In a slightly less civilized world, the exit pollsters would be reporting that the candidate “F*@# You” would be the number one response to their questions.