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New polling nightmare: Trump supporters 'won't say it out loud (from 2017)
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Oct 4, 2017 | by Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/23/2018 5:55:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA

... At Rasmussen Reports, which was the most accurate 2016 pollster, questions on Trump often see a spike in those who check "don't know."

Francis Coombs, Rasmussen managing editor, said, "In most surveys, you generally get 4 or 5 percent who say they are undecided, but if you ask about a controversial issue, particularly one involving Trump, that figure often jumps to the high teens — 17 percent or 18 percent. That tells me that a lot of those people agree with the president but just aren't going to say it out loud."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; 2018polls; bedard; silentmajority
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To: Steely Tom; Destroyer Sailor; LS

LS just posted that some pollsters are finding they need to phone 60,000 people in order to get a sample size of 300.


61 posted on 10/24/2018 9:23:39 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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To: AFPhys

Spoke to a pro marketer yesterday working on a major campaign for a state’s PR: 60k is the NORM to get 300 respondents. I bet half these people do 90k.


62 posted on 10/24/2018 9:24:30 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: AFPhys
LS just posted that some pollsters are finding they need to phone 60,000 people in order to get a sample size of 300.

Yeah, 300 people who are willing to talk to a pollster. Not representative of the population at large.

63 posted on 10/24/2018 10:01:41 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: proud American in Canada
Don’t blame them. For whatever reason, the man is universally hated.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

WRONG.

I had an ex girlfriend who was living in Canada when Nixon beat McGovern in 1972 by an EV score of 520 to 17.

She and everyone she knew were CERTAIN McGovern would win ... very shocked.

I guess nothing has changed in Canada? :)

64 posted on 10/24/2018 1:28:23 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (2018: JOBS vs. MOBS)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

“I don’t answer the phone when I don’t recognize the number.

I don’t either.


65 posted on 10/24/2018 1:30:05 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: 11th_VA

Tell no one anything. None of their business.


66 posted on 10/24/2018 1:32:15 PM PDT by jetson
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To: KevinB

“Wifey is afraid unhinged Dems will harm her horses. I do not think that fear is unfounded.”

I would be afraid, too. The RAT-Commies are crazy. (Now, I keep thinking about that horse head scene from The Godfather!)


67 posted on 10/24/2018 1:38:48 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: 11th_VA
Yes, to be sure. But this one is so important, we need to run scared.

Our Last Chance? [Can Donald Trump Revive The "Spirit of '76?]

68 posted on 10/24/2018 1:43:26 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Artaniss

I live in California and as a taxi driver I drive a lot.

I have seen NO bumper stickers on cars for the current California races. Not one. No “Newsome” signs even though he was our mayor.

There are still Obama stickers on cars don’t get me wrong. But nothing for the current cycle. It is really weird.

I have seen ONE yard sign in this city. A brave soul has a Cox sign out front. The only yard sign I’ve seen.


69 posted on 10/24/2018 2:35:44 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: wintertime

The last two times I answered political phone polls, I was asked my sexual orientation. I find that to be very personal and was quite shocked the first time. I have decided not to answer any more polls. I don’t want to talk about sexual inclinations with a stranger.


70 posted on 10/24/2018 2:38:22 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Persevero

Good decision!


71 posted on 10/24/2018 3:22:57 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: MountainDad

Man, pls FReepmail me. I’m looking to move back home and it sounds like paradise!


72 posted on 10/30/2018 10:15:09 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: 11th_VA

When the caller ID looks like a pollster, I simply don’t pick up the phone.


73 posted on 10/30/2018 10:18:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Rebelbase

LOL! Hope you threw in transgendered too! LOL!

Now that’s something you don’t see everyday. :-)


74 posted on 10/30/2018 10:18:12 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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