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Des Moines Register, CNN cancel final Iowa poll after Buttigieg reportedly left off at least one call
Fox News ^ | Fb. 1, 2020 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 02/02/2020 8:14:22 AM PST by libstripper

DES MOINES, Iowa – There will not be a final Des Moines Register poll in Iowa ahead of Monday’s caucuses. The newspaper, along with media partners CNN and Mediacom, announced Saturday night that they would not be releasing their survey, which is considered the gold standard in Iowa polling.

The shocking news came after a Democratic presidential candidate’s name was omitted in at least one of the poll's interviews with a respondent. The New York Times reported that the candidate left off the call was Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Ind.

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


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KEYWORDS: cancellation; democrats; ia; poll
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To: libstripper
All is lost for those three voters Buttagag would have raked in.

Whew, the Des Moines Register and CNN to the rescue.

So I guess none of Bernie's supporters got counted.

Job done!

21 posted on 02/02/2020 9:02:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Trump20162020

“The people on this site cheerleading for Bernie Sanders sound like the smart conservative tacticians in 2008 that wanted Barack Obama to beat Hillary Clinton because he was “beatable” in the general election. Worked out real well.”

This dim field of candidates is so filled with losers you could recommend cheering for any of them. But to hope for Bernie to fight back for an obvious screwing by the dim party would make them a bigger train-wreck than they already are.

And if they are so shameless and desperate as to change the rules with such a worthless excuse as buttigieg being left off one call I’ll bet that’s what we’ll see.


22 posted on 02/02/2020 9:09:41 AM PST by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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To: libstripper

Iowa - Bernie
New Hampshire - Bernie
Nevada - Bernie

Bernie is going to win the first THREE

Yes, Biden is still ahead in South Carolina, but his lead is shrinking, and after 3 wins in a row, Bernie will have all the media and momentum and could pull an upset in South Carolina, and if so.. it’s over and Bernie is the nominee.

I dont know if anyone has ever won the first three and NOT won the nomination.


23 posted on 02/02/2020 9:14:32 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: libstripper

WTF??? Could the DemonShits have killed this because Bernie’s blowing everybody else out?

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Um ... I believe that would be a YES!

Bernie Screwed Again – CNN/Des Moines Register Refuse To Publish Final Poll Showing Bernie Sanders Leading Iowa…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/01/bernie-screwed-again-cnn-des-moines-register-refuse-to-publish-final-poll-showing-bernie-sanders-leading-iowa/#more-182463

From link:

It’s somewhat of a tradition for The Des Moines Register to publish the final poll of the campaign season on the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses. Except this year, they refuse to publish the results citing a “polling problem“.

The CNN/DMR cover story is that one pollster may have pronounced Buttigieg name incorrectly. However, everyone knows the real reason…. Bernie has a big lead.

Bernie Sanders is going to crush the field on Monday. The results above are on the low-side of what will happen. Buttigieg doesn’t have anywhere near that level of support and the Biden and Warren support is purely a media creation.


24 posted on 02/02/2020 9:15:41 AM PST by Qiviut (I love the smell of covfefe in the morning - coffee or napalm, depending on the day.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Bernie’s Heart Didn’t Attack Itself!”


25 posted on 02/02/2020 9:16:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bluescape

“And if they are so shameless and desperate as to change the rules with such a worthless excuse as buttigieg being left off one call I’ll bet that’s what we’ll see.”

I was thinking of the non-releasing of one of the latest polls because of buttigieg being left of one call.

The rules changes was for a dim debate that might benefit bloomberg allowing him to step in. Both pretty shabby.


26 posted on 02/02/2020 9:34:58 AM PST by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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To: libstripper

CNN ran an anti-gay poll?


27 posted on 02/02/2020 9:37:08 AM PST by rephope
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To: libstripper

How many other polls were manipulated that they never admitted?


28 posted on 02/02/2020 9:42:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bigbob
The ultimate Operation Chaos Candidate...let him win a couple of primaries then see how fast he has another heart attack.

Bernie's Heart Didn't Attack Itself.

29 posted on 02/02/2020 9:43:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump20162020

Apples to Oranges. Obama was actually positioned as more of a Centrist at that time.


30 posted on 02/02/2020 9:44:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FreedBird

most of one party fears it.

The other party doesn’t want you to know they are socialist.


31 posted on 02/02/2020 9:49:28 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Trump20162020

The problem...

the republicans had a candidate who could not beat a dead horse..

Trump is different.


32 posted on 02/02/2020 9:50:51 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: libstripper
ONE blown interview spoils the entire poll?

What was the sample size? FIVE?

Total nonsense. The Democrats are gonna lose Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia too this time around after screwing Bernie again.

33 posted on 02/02/2020 10:09:44 AM PST by montag813
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To: libstripper

When they can’t lie to themselves with their own polls, they just cancel their own polls.

These people are hilarious in a terrifying way.


34 posted on 02/02/2020 10:58:00 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: libstripper

Awwww! Butt-gig was left behind? What would he have polled? Maybe 1%?


35 posted on 02/02/2020 11:56:49 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: libstripper

Translation: They didn’t like the results so they found an excuse to invalidate the poll. It may or may not have been true.


36 posted on 02/02/2020 12:14:47 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: libstripper
That would be a convenient excuse.

On the one hand, they can say that if one candidate was excluded from one call, can we be sure that another candidate wasn't excluded from another call?

On the other hand, they usually over-sample the population and then apply their methodology to reduce the responses to meet their target sample make-up. If they know of the call that dropped a candidate, they know of any other calls that dropped a candidate. They can always discard those calls and still draw their target sample population from the remaining set of calls.

This means they can't manipulate the samples to get the poll result they want.

-PJ

37 posted on 02/02/2020 12:20:32 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: libstripper

Isn’t that why you track this stuff and toss out the mistake. I gotta believe they leave Trumps name off most all telephone polls.


38 posted on 02/02/2020 2:01:27 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: libstripper

Can anyone, in their wildest prurient imagination, picture a POTUS doing another man up the butt, in the White House. On a constant and regular basis?
Are we insane? To even consider that?

Wasn’t that stain Obama enough? How can we further degrade ourselves in this world? We can...


39 posted on 02/02/2020 2:14:44 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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