"Listen to me carefully: Do not ... trust ... this poll."
Posted on 05/05/2017 9:04:17 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Most voters don’t trust political polls and tend to think pollsters are out to stop President Trump’s agenda.
Just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters say they trust most political polls. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 55% do not trust most political polls. Nineteen percent (19%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Thirty-seven percent (37%) rate the current polling on political issues and events as worse than it has been in the past. Only 11% say polling is better now. Forty-six percent (46%) think it’s about the same.
Just one-out-of-three voters (35%) believe most pollsters are interested in reporting the attitudes of Americans in an unbiased manner when they poll on Trump. Forty-three percent (43%) think most pollsters are trying to block the president from passing his agenda. Just 12% say most are trying to help the president pass that agenda instead.
Not surprisingly, given how wrong most pollsters were about the outcome of the presidential election, 64% of Republicans think most pollsters are trying to block Trump’s agenda, a view shared by 42% of unaffiliated voters but only 24% of Democrats.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 3-4, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
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A poll that says voters don’t trust polls. LOL!
Only 24% of democrats count pollsters among the resistance? Riiiiight
"Listen to me carefully: Do not ... trust ... this poll."
Polls: Trump Keeps and Expands His Base
http://bigleaguepolitics.com/polls-trump-keeps-expands-base/ ^ | 5/5/17 | Larry Schweikart
Posted on 5/5/2017, 9:05:23 AM by V K Lee
Despite the marches and protests of Brownshirt fascists everywhere, and despite the unprecedented negative fake news coverage of his first 100 days, Trump’s supporters are unfazed. Just a week ago Pew showed that he had lost almost none of his base.
Now, a new People’s Pundit Daily poll out of Florida shows that Trump remains very strong in the Sunshine State. Richard Baris, the president of PPD, says “Since the election, the President’s support among whites has held roughly even in the nation’s largest battleground state, while his support among non-whites, particularly Hispanics, has risen slightly on almost ever measure.” In private, however, Baris is even more emphatic: based on vote share per county, there would be “zero” chance Trump would lose Florida today. He reemphasized, “zero.” Trump’s numbers in the swing county Pinellas were positive and Hillsborough just under 50. But the Panhandle? “Ridiculous margins” in favor of Trump, noted Baris.
Always careful to protect his national best election day polling record (one of only two to correctly call Michigan and Pennsylvania), Baris did not divulge if he had factored in the new positive Republican voter registration changes (+27,000, net) since election day. For those who haven’t followed my columns, I should repeat that the change in Pennsylvania was even more stunning—over 100,000 shifted to the Republicans/away from the Democrats. In short, as of early May, Trump is in a distinctly stronger position in two key states than he was just a few short months ago when he won them narrowly.
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Poll Poll Ping list/sarc
Any right-minded person can see how the media and these polling companies are colluding to hurt the president. It’s the same playbook they unsuccessfully used during the campaign. You ask more Democrats than not how they feel about the Republican POTUS and his agenda and then push out the results as the Gospel truth?
Hey, ask me what I thought of Obummer’s eight years of hell on Earth then push that out as reflecting America’s view. You’re actually likely to get closer to the truth than the phony opinions you say the electorate has about Pres. Trump.
He who commissions a poll likely commissions a desired result.
Why else is there such disparity among polls?
After the worst debacle in polling history occurred just last Nov, this is not surprising, is it?
Polls during elections have been part of the democrat/media psychological warfare aimed at suppressing the vote for whomever the republican candidate is. The psychological warfare operation is continuing right up to this day, it’s all part of the democrat/media effort to undermine and destroy Trump’s administration.
Trump’s great campaign against fake news is working beautifully.
Only 64%? That's a stunningly low number...
Kind of ironic, yet I sense some truth in this....so much so that I am less perturbed when I see some of the crap that comes up on “home” pages of sites like yahoo, twitter, etc.
People are swimming in the water of the internet, but they’re paying less and less attention to the “buzz” the Big Internet Media companies are spewing.
I was kind of awakened to this last year in the midst of the primary season, when a quite liberal black friend of mine called me aside and told me confidently, “This media stuff is crazy. Trump is not a racist!”
That guy ended up voting for Trump—the first time in his 50 years he has voted Republican for a President.
Clearly polls are overused, this kinda proves it.
Internals showed 26% R 30 I and 38 D , as I remember. Approx 10%-15% more Dems than R's.....ration was clearly out of balance, but never mentioned.
ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE INTERNALS
Guaranteed.
And the 26% are undoubtedly Democrats. 100% of Democrats believed polls until 9 PM EST on November 8th.
And the 26% are undoubtedly Democrats. 100% of Democrats believed polls until 9 PM EST on November 8th.
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