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Busted! Crooked Media Plays With Polling Numbers To Pretend Georgia Is Hillary Country
Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/5/16 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/05/2016 3:00:21 PM PDT by JohnKinAK

Another day – another blatant example of the media manipulating polls to discourage Trump voters.

Reuters was caught red-handed changing poll results to erase a Trump lead last week.

Now the Atlanta Journal Constitution does the same pretending that Hillary is going to win Georgia.

Polling firms contact registered voters. The number of voters who answer the phone and agree to the survey are put into a number called the “unweighted base.” The polling firm then applies their own “formula” based on who they think is going to vote. In the example below, 278 Republicans in Georgia answered the phone for a poll in May. The AJC’s polling firm thinks that’s too many Republicans, so they move that to 245, “adjusting” the numbers with an “average weighted response.” SNIP 2 1/2 months, later, the same polling firm substantially altered their “secret formula.”

Compare these two crosstabs. This is a link to the Aug 1-4 poll. Here is the poll by the same outfit back in May. The first number is the raw data. The second is the weighted sample. Talk about a giant leap! Snip The difference in the results is in the weighted average, which is the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s polling firm putting it’s thumb on the scale. To believe this poll is remotely true, you’d have to believe that hundreds of thousands of registered Republicans in Georgia plan to sit out the election entirely.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; deceit; elections; ga2016; georgia; liberalmedia; media; mediabias; polls; trump
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To: JohnKinAK

And .. you were expecting something new and different ..??

These people have been doing this for years and years; it’s time the public finally realized we’re being skunked.


41 posted on 08/05/2016 4:45:57 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: dware
They are simply setting it all up to make the coming election fraud look good.

Yep. They're attempting to legitimize the voter fraud.

Pray that their evil plans are foiled.

42 posted on 08/05/2016 5:05:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Fantasywriter

Anyone who thinks Hillary is winning in GA needs to put down the bottle and step away from the crack pipe.


LOL...only, that WOULD BE Hillary ;-)


43 posted on 08/05/2016 5:06:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Jane Long

Bol!


44 posted on 08/05/2016 5:19:37 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: PTBAA

What I don’t understand is why she would halt ads, etc in Virginia and Colorado? I find it odd because there is still a long way to go to November.


45 posted on 08/05/2016 5:26:54 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (TRUMP 2016)
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To: RetSignman

I am a Conservative; I have never been polled (probably never will be), all in the media are liars, including FAUX News.
Smegma Keely is the most outstanding example on FOX of a person who looks for anything bad or dismal to report on TRUMP, even if known to be untrue, she is a bought and paid for 3$ whore..
Bill O’Stupid is just in it for the money, anybody can buy him if the offer is right.
Hannity never shuts up and can only tick off HIS talking points.
Hitlery is a lying, backstabbing, murdering, slut who has an unnatural thirst for power over all others, in other words a PSYCHOPATH.
Thank you very much but I think I will just stick with my own eyes, ears, and intuition.
VOTE TRUMP. Do it like a democrat; vote early, vote often, and in as many precincts as you can.
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP


46 posted on 08/05/2016 6:26:19 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

I have never been polled either so that tells you who they’re polling. Probably all inner city sampling with a heavy minority dose.

These polls are meaningless because they’re conducted by biased pollsters who likely conduct do over’s if the results are too heavily Trump.


47 posted on 08/05/2016 7:32:24 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: hoosiermama

This WILL get Trump supporters to the polls in droves, if supporters think for a second Trump could lose they WILL VOTE !!!! This is going to backfire YUGE!!!!


48 posted on 08/05/2016 7:38:53 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: JohnKinAK

Trump Campaign needs to wisen up. When a surrogate or when Trump himself is on the air, and the media tries to site a poll, it’s time to start questioning the methodology, what parts of the state were polled, who was the pollster and what are their political leanings?

Do that every time and the media will be forced to have to try to run more accurate polling. Trump should also run his own internal polling and use that to counter the media poll.


49 posted on 08/05/2016 7:39:21 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Fantasywriter; JohnKinAK

It’s the other way round, Trump 15,000, shrillary 200.

But looking at that poll, one would not know that.


50 posted on 08/06/2016 4:25:25 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: caww; hoosiermama

Caww, hoosiermama

I found the story on the ‘called 50k homes in all 50 states’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3457021/posts?page=1#1


51 posted on 08/06/2016 4:30:09 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Burned buildings and smashed presses are needed to rectify the sin of the MSM


52 posted on 08/06/2016 4:32:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: WildHighlander57

If there were a shred of truth to the polls, Hillary would be having larger, more enthusiastic crowds. As it is, even with paid attendees and/or forced student participation, she’s preaching to small, placid crowds. The only excitement comes when she gets protested—giving her first an opportunity to freeze up, and then yet another opportunity to reel off a stupid, obvious lie.


53 posted on 08/06/2016 6:51:33 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: WildHighlander57

Thanks...


54 posted on 08/06/2016 10:08:06 AM PDT by caww
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