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To: Zhang Fei

Mainstream media polls about Trump
are about as reliable as Chinese statistics on Wuhan Virus spread.


70 posted on 04/15/2020 3:34:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

[Mainstream media polls about Trump
are about as reliable as Chinese statistics on Wuhan Virus spread.]


In terms of EV’s, sure. But they nailed the popular vote in 2016. And they’re upping the state-by-state coverage in 2020. I expect their accuracy to be way up.

Pollsters get paid to be accurate. No Democrat is gonna thank a pollster who underestimated his opponent’s numbers, leading to the Democrat’s overconfidence, mis-allocation of resources and ultimate defeat. He wants to know the numbers as they are, not the way he’d like them to be. Pollsters are the political equivalent of a military organization’s reconnaissance units - they identify, on a geographic basis, the enemy’s key assets and weaknesses so commanding officers can decide how to deploy their units most effectively. Hillary lost because her highly-paid Midwestern pollsters were wrong and she wasted time narrowing Trump’s margins in “close but no cigar” red states like Georgia.


73 posted on 04/15/2020 3:46:24 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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