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A New Poll with Biden's Soaring Approval Ratings Shows the Pollsters Aren't Even Trying Anymore
Red State ^ | 04/18/2021 | Bonchie

Posted on 04/18/2021 1:43:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

You’ve probably noticed a barrage of approval rating polls being released in the past month or so, and nearly all of them show Joe Biden as a president for the ages. We’ve seen such high numbers as 60% approval in some surveys. Perhaps Biden is just that much of a unifier, despite pushing the most radical, divisive agenda in modern history? Or perhaps there’s something else going on with these polls.

Yeah, it’s the latter.

D+31 sample. https://t.co/kAfgbwrFYg

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) April 17, 2021

Random thought, but if your sample is coming out to a raw D+31 sample, perhaps there’s something wrong with your pool that you are originally drawing from? Are they just calling people in blue states? Further, if you look at the internals, they only weight the poll to D+9, while the 2020 election was Biden +4. The margin was even smaller in the vote totals for the House, for example. In other words, the country much more evenly divided than shown here, but according to these pollsters, we are in a new era of peace and unity.

The purpose of this is clear: to push a narrative of inevitability going into 2022 for Democrats. Approval polls can hide behind the idea that they apply to all Americans and not just voters, yet their only real use is in serving as a data point for upcoming elections. We see this every cycle. Polls with ridiculous samples showing Democrats wrecking shop. Then as the elections get closer, the samples start to get whittled down more.

This isn’t “un-skewing” polls, a process some have been prone to criticize where you try to guess at voter turnout and make Democrat and Republican samples even. Rather, it’s nothing that the electorate has been fairly stable the last two cycles (Trump lost by around the same slim margin he won by in 2016), and if a recall on a poll sample is coming back over double Biden’s 2020 margin, it’s not representative or predictive. And if it’s not those things, then it’s useless as a data point.

We’ve seen these same crazy recall numbers when compared to 2020 in Marist, Morning Consult, and other polls released lately as well. They all, despite most of them getting 2020 so wrong, are simply doubling down on their methodology. Meanwhile, sites like 538 continue to hang “A ratings” on trash polls like Quinnipiac. It’s just a racket to push narratives at this point.



TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: approval; biden; joebiden; media; polls; pollsters
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1 posted on 04/18/2021 1:43:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No, they’re trying. Trying hard to control reality.


2 posted on 04/18/2021 1:48:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Your Majesty, your approval ratings are through the roof!”

“Really? Was someone consulted?”


3 posted on 04/18/2021 1:49:51 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden’s poll numbers will remain high along with the stock market. When the market crashes, watch out for falling bodies.


4 posted on 04/18/2021 1:56:27 PM PDT by entropy12 (Thanks President Trump for WARP SPEED availability of covid vaccines.)
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To: ifinnegan

I am sure his ratings are very high with the hordes swarming the southern US border between Mexico and the US, with the CCP regime of China, and perhaps even with the ayatollahs of Iran. Not so much with a very large part of the people of the United States.

Of course, among those who have already drunk the Kool-Aid, his popularity never waned, nor waivered in the least.


5 posted on 04/18/2021 1:58:33 PM PDT by alloysteel (¡Viva la Revolución! It worked for Castro....)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Media and the DNC are one. They tell the truth if it is of no consequence. They lie like hell if needed to support their common cause of socialism and Marxism.

THEY LIE! It is really that simple.

ps
Where do we go if our great nation fails? I would suggest to our guns in defense of our great constitution. Defending our great Constitution is most honorable.


6 posted on 04/18/2021 2:00:00 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist. CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Pretty sure that is NOT how to spell “SOREASS”. JS......


7 posted on 04/18/2021 2:12:25 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Samuel Clemens said there are 3 types of lies...

Lies, Damn lies, Democrat Poll Numbers
8 posted on 04/18/2021 2:15:22 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

Approval over 100%. Just like percentage of voters that voted for him.


9 posted on 04/18/2021 2:17:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d believe Rassmussen polls before any others.


10 posted on 04/18/2021 2:18:07 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (som)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure Bidens approval numbers are higher than God’s.


11 posted on 04/18/2021 2:19:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pollster probably on strong drugs, cnn, or some other communist organization


12 posted on 04/18/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: SeekAndFind

I take it the poll didn’t include anyone who used to work on the Keystone Pipeline?


13 posted on 04/18/2021 2:28:19 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: entropy12

You’re right, a compliant media and a record Dow mean high President ratings. Globalist tycoons with their central bank enablers doing leveraged buyouts of all American business is just fine with the public as long as their 401K balance goes up.


14 posted on 04/18/2021 2:29:02 PM PDT by teevolt
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To: EvilCapitalist

Conservatives are just eating sour grapes. The can’t stand Biden being so popular. Just wait until Camala is in office with a 103% approval rating.


15 posted on 04/18/2021 2:31:02 PM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: ifinnegan
C'mon, man, the former Vice President pulled in 180 million votes on election night. Obviously, this is
pure evidence that all 57 States love this man. Any poll today that shows less than 80% approval is raciss.
Now, move along..this isn't the fraud we're looking for..move along.
16 posted on 04/18/2021 2:43:42 PM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To be fair.

Could be worse.


17 posted on 04/18/2021 2:44:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SeekAndFind

The pollsters are smoking weed.


18 posted on 04/18/2021 2:44:57 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
To be fair. Could be worse.

Could be raining.

19 posted on 04/18/2021 2:45:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

24/7 positive news from the MSM doesn’t hurt either...


20 posted on 04/18/2021 2:47:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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