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Pollster Frank Luntz Declares His Profession Is Pretty Much Dead
MenRec ^ | 11/06/20 | Staff

Posted on 11/06/2020 6:05:56 AM PST by rustyweiss74

Veteran pollster Frank Luntz, contemplating his industry’s major misses in a second consecutive presidential election, declared his profession “done.”

The results of a highly contentious race between President Trump and Democrat nominee Joe Biden have Luntz feeling a little dismayed, especially when polls seemed to be indicating an easy win for the challenger for months.

“The political polling profession is done,” Luntz told Axios earlier today. “It is devastating for my industry.”

In a separate interview with Fox News, Luntz said it is “unforgivable” that public opinion surveys failed to correct the mistakes of 2016 and again underestimated support for President Trump.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: frankluntz; polling
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1 posted on 11/06/2020 6:05:56 AM PST by rustyweiss74
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To: rustyweiss74

It’s been dead since 1948...........................


2 posted on 11/06/2020 6:06:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: rustyweiss74

Luntz is a fat lying turd as his sniveling email on Hunter Biden’s laptop shows.


3 posted on 11/06/2020 6:07:11 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: rustyweiss74

“MenRec” sounds like a gay porn site.


4 posted on 11/06/2020 6:07:23 AM PST by real saxophonist (Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. -Bruce Lee)
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To: rustyweiss74

Big deal. Will the polling companies now stop with their propaganda? No.


5 posted on 11/06/2020 6:07:26 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: rustyweiss74

I don’t care. Polls are always speculative. What does it matter if the actual votes on Election Day don’t count. Then it’s not just the polling industry but our entire Republic is gone. Duh!


6 posted on 11/06/2020 6:07:52 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: rustyweiss74

“...public opinion surveys failed to correct the mistakes of 2016 and again underestimated support for President Trump.”

And that support is not going anywhere, Frank!

Recount! Recount! Recount!


7 posted on 11/06/2020 6:08:07 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They’ll still be around next time. He’s just blowing smoke up our asses.


8 posted on 11/06/2020 6:09:53 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: rustyweiss74

For this election, yeah, polling is dead. For future elections it’s going to be easy. Democrats win. Every race, every time.


9 posted on 11/06/2020 6:10:40 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: rigelkentaurus
The polling mafia is basically a disinformation operation, intended to discourage Republicans and conservatives from voting. If Biden has a double digit lead, why bother to vote? It isn't working because the conservative community has more or less migrated from the mainstream media that publicizes the polling mafia’s findings. Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, and bloggers denigrate their findings, rightly so, and the listeners or readers agree.
10 posted on 11/06/2020 6:12:35 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Once a bunch of fraudulent ballots are thrown into the pool, recounting them will make no difference. We need to re-vote with the normal election integrity rules in place.


11 posted on 11/06/2020 6:12:36 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Frank Luntz is the most self important, pompous twit I have ever seen. Even more so than Adam Schiff


12 posted on 11/06/2020 6:14:01 AM PST by Rainwave ("Work out your OWN salvation with fear and trembling")
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To: rustyweiss74

You won’t need it. Only one party left. Republicans were the stupid party, remember.


13 posted on 11/06/2020 6:15:06 AM PST by Hattie
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To: rustyweiss74

And so are you so go F off.


14 posted on 11/06/2020 6:15:28 AM PST by cp124 (Time for a new America.)
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To: rustyweiss74

I never respond to opinion polls, a complete waste of my time.


15 posted on 11/06/2020 6:17:05 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: rustyweiss74

The pollsters make utterly invalid assumptions:

(1) They think it’s possible to obtain a statistically valid sample by phoning people.
(2) They ignore (don’t count) hang ups and no-answers
(3) They don’t allow for lying by respondents

On top of this, their polls and questions are heavily influenced by their own biases. They oversample Democrats because “everybody knows there are more Democrats”. Really? How?

Anybody with a phone can call 1000 people and hang out his shingle as a “pollster”. Time for this industry to be utterly discredited as the clown show it is.


16 posted on 11/06/2020 6:18:32 AM PST by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Political Polling......get the results your customer WANTS and you can be a millionaire, too!............Nice work if you can get it!..................


17 posted on 11/06/2020 6:19:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: rustyweiss74

Luntz must not be taking his depression meds regularly again. His industry performed exactly as planned and almost to perfection. The pollsters intent was not to MEASURE public opinion but to MOLD public opinion. Their polls were so skewed that it is probable that many Trump voters failed to vote because the pollsters made it look hopeless to overcome their fraudulent numbers.

It appears that the blacks in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta are going to determine who the next president will be.


18 posted on 11/06/2020 6:19:26 AM PST by Saltmeat (69)
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To: rustyweiss74

He’s going to be wrong about that, too.


19 posted on 11/06/2020 6:19:48 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: rustyweiss74

the problem is a bunch of junk pollsters with an agenda flood the zone with BS data.

And for some unknown reason (the poll aggregators weight the BS pollsters good and the good ones bad) Which tips the scales even further.

2 presidential elections in a row where trafalgar and Rasmussen were really close, and getting mocked daily by the supposed experts as junk, and C- rated pollsters etc.


20 posted on 11/06/2020 6:20:15 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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