I heard someone in-the-know explain that the pollsters finally got hip to the credibility problem they were getting from horrible Dem/Rep/Ind splits, so they solved it one of two ways:
1) The pollster wouldn’t give the split at all, or hide it in their report. Folks were griping about that one, so the pollsters “got smart”, and
2) Chose their polling areas smarter. They’d poll the HEAVY democrat areas so the Dem partisanship was high, and they’d poll suburban RINO mom areas, light blue, so they’d get the weakest Republicans.
I heard someone in-the-know explain that the pollsters finally got hip to the credibility problem they were getting from horrible Dem/Rep/Ind splits, so they solved it one of two ways:
1) The pollster wouldn’t give the split at all, or hide it in their report. Folks were griping about that one, so the pollsters “got smart”, and
2) Chose their polling areas smarter. They’d poll the HEAVY democrat areas so the Dem partisanship was high, and they’d poll suburban RINO mom areas, light blue, so they’d get the weakest Republicans.
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A very good friend of mine, who also works from one of these outfits (can’t name or she’ll get fired for sure), also mentioned that they were instructed to “discard/cancel” any self identified Democrats participating in their poll that chooses Trump as President. But they’r not doing that with the Republican RINOs who choose to vote for Biden. If you add that to what your person told you then you can easily see where they may only show +5 D sample yet show Biden up double digits. It truly is underhanded stuff. Also keep in mind that the media outfits that are “paying” for these polls (i.e. ABC, Wash Post, NY Times, NBC, etc) have told these polling outfits that unless they don’t provide them with the outcome they want (i.e. a huge Biden lead), that they will NOT be used in the future. It really is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in politics in a long time....