Posted on 02/02/2020 2:03:16 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A stunning decision to scrap the final bellwether poll of Iowa Democratic voters ahead of Monday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses represented something of a fitting end to a roller coaster political season, leaving party activists and pundits guessing.
The Des Moines Register, CNN and pollster Ann Selzer decided not to release the poll’s results after a technical error apparently left one of the lead contenders, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, off of at least one survey. Selzer and the media partners concluded they could not stand completely behind the survey after the error was discovered.
Selzer’s Iowa Poll has been a must-watch barometer of Iowa voter attitudes since she won the contract to conduct polls for the Des Moines Register in 1997. Her track record has stood out in the notoriously difficult-to-poll caucus state, calling winners and spotting last-minute movement that other pollsters have missed.
SNIP
Unfounded rumors flew around the internet in the hours after the decision to cancel the poll, fingers flying as supporters of some candidates impugned others. Every possible variable — Sanders surging! Sanders fading! Buttigieg up! Buttigieg down! — echoed across Twitter and flashed into reporters’ email inboxes. The poll certainly mirrored internal surveys conducted for Candidate X, which coincidentally showed Candidate X on the rise. Or it reflected a drop in Candidate X’s support, as internal polling conducted by Candidate Y’s team had measured over the last week.
But for now, the three parties who would know which narrative is correct are clamming up. A source inside CNN told The Hill on Saturday that even the network’s top editors and anchors didn’t know what the poll found. The Des Moines Register did not respond to requests for comment, and Selzer herself declined to discuss the results.
SNIP
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
THEY ARE FEELING THE BERN!
AND THEY DON’T LIKE IT!
They’re trying to confuse the drones and redirect them!
Biden will never drop out. If he does he is fair game for Trump to go after big time.
I think that is why they are so worried about Bernie. Trump could uncover a lot of swamp ground then.
You are correct. The Bern was burying Biden in the poll. Couldn’t let the caucus goers know how much a lead Bernie had so they could be with the winner.
Gee, how did we ever survive before they came up with polls?
I like how The Hill is towing the line. Gee wiz, I guess it’s just a snafu. If Bernie loses and the polls said his lead was double digits the rats know they will have a def con 4 rebellion on their hands. On the other hand the rats are not about the let Bernie win this thing.
Maybe the pollsters discovered that the results had been gamed (or someone caught the pollsters gaming them), which means the prior polls might have been falsified too. Imagine that, a fake poll. Would be funny if all this talk about a BS lead turns out to be BS.
Let them guess instead of voting for who they are told to vote for.
What good little drones they are.
Unable to think for themselves.
Seriously, why do they need a poll? They need somebody else to tell them what they should think?
And in the end, only a conundrum remains for the Democrats.
Bernie wins, and the more moderate Democrats leave, disappointed and without a voice in the affairs of the Democrat agenda.
Bernie loses, and the Berniebots will, in a fit of sheer spite, will simply sit on their hands, deserting the rest of the Democrat party, or going off for some Green candidate, more suited to their socialist objectives.
Somehow, the core Democrat party will survive, after one of the most severe cases ever of Red measles since the days of the Democrat New Deal of FDR.
But sadly, they shall have gained no immunity at all against yet another attack of these same Red measles. And the next time, they will have several billionaires bankrolling the revised agenda.
We once heard of “malefactors of great wealth”. They are back, with a vengeance.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3813097/posts
Mike Cernovich claims to have the Register poll results that were quashed
The Clown Car idiots didn’t know a Marx bro could drive. His posse told us.
I guessed that Trump got more voters than the Democrats...
Really? If you need a poll to tell you who to vote for, you are an idiot and you should stay home.
I think the way this went down is the DNC (crime family) called the owner of the Des Moines Register and explained: “Nice newspaper you have there—be a shame if something happened to it.”
Then everybody in the establishment media started reading from the “mistake” script.
Most likely the poll showed Bernie with a substantial lead—and _that_ had to be kept secret—national security ya know...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.