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Poll-dancing: Is Biden really at 49 percent approval?
American Thinker ^ | 17 Jul, 2021 | AZ Buck

Posted on 07/17/2021 4:01:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Unlikely. Just look at how this poll was done.

Here are the biased numbers for the recent Economist-YouGov poll that gives Joe Biden a 49% approval rating. A first-year reporter could retrieve this information with ease, unless he were incompetent, lazy, or most likely biased. I guess most Dems are accustomed to living in such willful ignorance. They will swallow and pass along any talking point from the media elites if they are slanted against conservatives.

The Economist–YouGov poll July 10–13, 2021 — 1,500 U.S. Adult Citizens Registered 2020 Vote Party ID

Dem (324) Republican (235) Independent (260)

Ninety-nine more Democrats sampled vs. Republicans were included in the results. It is not hard to get the results you want if the polls are assembled in this way, and this is always the method with these polls.

A total of 819 from 1,500 participants. Does that mean the rest were dumped because they are not registered to vote or affiliated with a party? Were their answers included in the reported percentages? Were the others thrown out for having the politically wrong answer? I guess they just disappeared overnight. Where have I heard that before?

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To: Brian Griffin

It sounds like you have had rental property before. I learned my lesson after less than a year and sold the property!


21 posted on 07/17/2021 5:59:24 AM 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: Hillarys Gate Cult

Didn’t Hunter like poll dancers? Oops, wrong spelling.


22 posted on 07/17/2021 6:01:16 AM 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: MtnClimber

F*CK NO!!!

Fake ass polls from the State Run media.

All that comes from the fake news is lies, deceit and deception.


23 posted on 07/17/2021 6:02:46 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: MtnClimber

It’s probably 35% at best.


24 posted on 07/17/2021 6:03:27 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: semimojo

“The author seems to think R/D should be 50/50.”

So do most people who think they’re so sophisticated because they look at the “internals”. And if the breakdown isn’t then they shriek “poll be bIaSed!!1!”.

OF COURSE the liberal media contrives to get the polling results they want and wouldn’t even publicize any poll they didn’t approve of, as if that’s some sort of gigantic surprise, but the sample must match the underlying population and only an idiot assumes that the underlying population is 50-50 at all times.


25 posted on 07/17/2021 6:11:22 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: ballplayer

Democrats killed the Republic.
They should be made to pay.


26 posted on 07/17/2021 7:05:50 AM PDT by The One Running the Simulation ("On with the show this is it")
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To: USS Alaska
The real question should be, "Are you a registered voter and if so are you a D, R or I".

I disagree. If you're using a poll to get an idea how the electorate is feeling I'd much rather know how someone is inclined to vote than what party they may be registered in.

27 posted on 07/17/2021 7:06:18 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: MtnClimber

Didn’t think it could be that high. What did the pollsters do, poll twenty (D)’s?


28 posted on 07/17/2021 7:45:35 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: MtnClimber

True, it looks like Independents and Republicans are undersampled, but Biden did get about half the vote in the election. People who voted are slow to change their minds and people who didn’t vote are slow to take an interest in politics. Right now Biden is the guy signing the stimulus checks. When those stop he may become the guy responsible for a lousy economic situation.


29 posted on 07/17/2021 8:05:06 AM PDT by x
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


30 posted on 07/17/2021 9:21:32 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: x

Biden has been consistently underestimated. Some people still think we are in the 1980s. The country is much less white and the younger generation has been brainwashed by our educational institutions, the entertainment industry and media.

People are happy with their new benefits and many will remain grateful to Biden because he got rid of Trump.


31 posted on 07/17/2021 9:51:07 AM PDT by nbenyo
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To: semimojo
I disagree. If you're using a poll to get an idea how the electorate is feeling...

Polls are designed to influence opinion, not "get an idea of how the electorate is feeling".

Plueese.

32 posted on 07/17/2021 11:21:59 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: MtnClimber

DEMONCRATS would give Stalin a thumbs up.

Useful Idiots do that kind of stuff.


33 posted on 07/17/2021 11:28:20 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: USS Alaska
Polls are designed to influence opinion, not "get an idea of how the electorate is feeling...

So why does every political campaign pay for private polls?

34 posted on 07/17/2021 11:29:37 AM PDT by semimojo
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