Posted on 11/06/2020 9:02:46 AM PST by Kaslin
In every election cycle, there is only one poll that matters, and that is the election results. That has never been truer than in 2020. Why should we have paid attention to the polls? As of Thursday morning, the popular vote margin was 50% Joe Biden and 48% Donald Trump. Here are some of the closing polls:
Quinnipiac University: Biden 50%, Trump 39%.
NBC News/Wall Street Journal: Biden 52%, Trump 42%.
Fox News: Biden 52%, Trump 44%.
CNN (likely voters): Biden 54%, Trump 42%.
RealClearPolitics average: Biden up 7.2%.
On Oct. 28, the ABC News/Washington Post poll preposterously posited Biden was leading Trump by 17 points in Wisconsin, 57% to 40%. The actual margin of Biden's lead as of Thursday was 0.7%.
Now ask yourself: If you're favoring either one of these candidates, could these polls affect your decision on whether to vote? It absolutely should not. Never, ever base your decision on whether to vote on preelection polling. When compared with the actual vote count, those polls are Fake News. They are absolutely worthless as measurements of the electorate.
They are damaging the legitimacy of our democracy, not helping it. When they're this off-base, they lead to both sides of the divide feeling the system is rigged. What's obviously rigged are these polls; they're easily categorized as an alternative reality. It's hard not to see intentional rigging, rather than some kind of accidental bias.
Everyone -- including conservatives who don't trust the media -- makes political and journalistic decisions based on these badly concocted polls. It's the political equivalent of chewing on Tide Pods.
Maybe you can't just blame pollsters. We know Republicans might seem to alternate between complaining they never get called by pollsters and hanging up on pollsters. We can suspect many Trump supporters lie about their preference if they take a survey. But we also know that these flocks of liberal pollsters stack their "turnout models" to their tastes of who "the people" are (or should be), and that we end up with shoddy results like a 12-point gap among "likely voters."
Let's all line up with Meghan McCain, who proclaimed on Twitter: "Modern American polling is dead and modern American pollsters should find another vocation so they stop wasting all of our collective time and helping to gaslight the media and American public." It makes you question every poll they've done on President Trump in the last two years.
McCain added: "At what point is our collective media going to accept just how out of touch with the majority of the country they are?!? I predict they won't, they will just quadruple down -- rather than accept, learn and try to actually represent so many of the voters they so clearly disdain."
The media pollsters assume the American electorate is always more liberal than it actually is. They have spent five years churning out surveys suggesting Donald Trump was unelectable. Being wrong in 2016 never slowed them down.
Nine days before Election Day, NBC News White House correspondent Geoff Bennett tried to soothe liberal panic about the pollsters possibly getting it wrong again. It was a spoonful of fake sugar. "Biden's lead is bigger than Clinton's was, edging out President Trump nationally and in nearly every battleground state," he said. "Trump is ... facing the worst polling position for a president seeking reelection since George H.W. Bush in 1992."
Does anyone expect these major-media polling "experts" to assemble for an autopsy to evaluate how wrong they are, and how untrustworthy they have become?
They didn’t fail, they were trying to suppress voting on election day, since twice the number of voters showing up were going to support Trump (as the Dems got most of their votes in early). It’s just the media, again, selecting our leaders.
This was not a fail. It was the same in 2016. Part of a larger conspiracy to circumvent an American election.
I smell war in the air.
They could have taken the steps that Trafalgar and Peoples Pundit did to get it right. They chose not to.
If Trafalgar and Peoples Pundit can get it right, so can they.
Actually the pollsters should probably just lie and not announce that they are from CNN, NBC, etc and maybe voters will tell the truth to them instead of lying. They told the truth to Trafalgar.
I don’t think they failed at all. I think they did EXACTLY what they were paid to do. The ‘pollsters’ are hired for deceptive poll results to do psy ops on the US electorate. Nothing more. Nothing less. They are merely cogs in the lying, fascist, liberal machine to deceive and steal power in the United States in America. Time for us all to wake up to the full extent of the purposeful manipulation in many areas by the Democratic Party which is comprised on liberals, socialists, radical leftists, and Marxists.
Exactly!
“As of Thursday morning, the popular vote margin was 50% Joe Biden and 48% Donald Trump.”
How much of Biden’s 50% were fraudulent votes? I suspect a ton load of them.
I think we have a pretty good idea of the total number of fraudalent Biden votes.
The President was leading by one point or so in the polls that got it correct—so the real numbers were probably:
Trump 50%
Biden 48%
We must understand that these are questions that elections cannot solve. Trump could have and should have suspended habeus corpus in 2017 and simply done to the MSM what Bobo did to James Rosen.
>The Absolute Failure of Pollsters
“He didn’t win, did he?”
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