Pew Pushes Polling Propaganda

American Thinker ^ | 10/21/2019 | Brian Joondeph

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Pollsters are at it again, pushing sketchy polls, not to reflect public opinion, but to shape it. This is called propaganda, a popular tool for dictators who want to control the information flow from an all-powerful government to their subjects, the people.

What once passed for journalism is now mostly propaganda, an effort by major media organizations to insert themselves into the political process, to push their agenda, even if it means throwing any pretense of journalistic principle and integrity to the wind. Look at the Project Veritas undercover videos of CNN for the latest example.

Polls of any type are designed to take a scientific snapshot of opinion at a particular point in time. A small sample is taken from a larger population and if the sample is representative of the entire population, then the poll should be valid.

When cooking a sauce, the chef might taste a bit to determine if additional seasoning is needed. If the sauce is mixed properly, then the small sample represents the entire sauce. Polls work the same way. A skewed sample will produce bogus results. This may be accidental or intentional. Which is it? I’ll report, you decide.

Pew Research Center is the latest pollster to weigh in on President Trump and impeachment. Let’s see whether their polling sample sauce was well stirred before they took a taste.

Pew sampled 3,487 “randomly selected” adults between October 1-13. That may or may not be representative of the general population but given that only about half of eligible voters actually vote in presidential elections, a better sample would be registered, or even likely voters.

Who was in that sample? Of the 3,487 total sample, 1,453 were or leaned Republican, 1,942 were or leaned Democrat. In other words, 56% Democrat and only 42% Republican,

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ASIDE FROM THE 14 POINT GAP BETWEEN POLLING DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, HERE IS THE IMPEACHMENT QUESTION PEW ASKED:

“Should the House should conduct impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.”

Notice that the question is about beginning formal impeachment, not whether Trump should actually be impeached or removed from office. To date the House has not begun actual impeachment, instead using the House Intelligence Committee to hold secret hearings, excluding Republicans, selectively leaking to the media, all to create a charade of impeachment without the House actually voting for i

POLL RESULT:

Pew found 54 approving the beginning of an inquiry versus 44 percent opposed, a 10-point difference. If the 14-point difference in political affiliation within the poll sample was negated, there may be a 4-point majority in favor of NOT beginning impeachment proceedings. The unmixed sauce did not provide a useful taste test for the chef.

QUESTION:

Is there a 14-point difference in political affiliation between Democrats and Republicans in the US population?

[MrEdd]

Pew Research was orginally the Tribune research division, founded by the Chicago Newspaper chain. Eventually the division was spun off as a separate corporation renamed after the first director.

Decades ago there were still standards in polling, and I imagine that the company was founded to produce the results the newspaper wanted to publish anyway.

In the early two thousands the history of the company was still proudly recounted on their website, but sometime in the last decade their website scrubbed all history prior to the name change.

[Socon-Econ]

Polls are the realm of the left, who see it as their duty to manipulate majorities in democracies. We should forget about any poll whose data and method is not open to inspection.