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Washington Post gobsmacked over its own poll result on Trump soaring approval -- and hastens to tell its readers it may be an 'outlier'
americanthinker.com ^ | 9/24/2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/25/2023 7:35:05 AM PDT by bitt

It's got to be tough to be the leaders at the Washington Post, water-carriers for the Biden administration.

Along with many others, they took a poll to see how his re-election prospects are going ... and they didn't like the results.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds President Biden struggling to gain approval from a skeptical public, with dissatisfaction growing over his handling of the economy and immigration, a rising share saying the United States is doing too much to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia and broad concerns about his age as he seeks a second term.

Biden and former president Donald Trump appear headed for a rematch of their 2020 contest, although more than 3 in 5 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they would prefer a nominee other than the president. But Biden’s advisers have argued that he is the strongest Democrat for 2024 and those who wish for someone else share no consensus on who that should be, with 8 percent naming Vice President Harris, 8 percent naming Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 20 percent saying they prefer “just someone else.” The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 09/25/2023 7:35:05 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/25/2023 7:35:24 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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Maybe …maybe not
Why report on it if you weren’t sure of the results ?


3 posted on 09/25/2023 7:36:11 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

Regardless of the truth, why did they release this poll?


4 posted on 09/25/2023 7:37:39 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: bitt

if they were on the stupid joe bandwagon

they would not have published the poll


5 posted on 09/25/2023 7:38:35 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: bitt

WaPo: “We’re sorry. We actually stopped counting at the 95% mark. Please let us count the final 5%, and we’ll get back to you with the REAL poll results.”


6 posted on 09/25/2023 7:38:53 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: bitt

When the Demented Pedophile is leading it’s NOT an “outlier”. ROTFLMAO! What a bunch of schmucks!


7 posted on 09/25/2023 7:40:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: CatOwner

Maybe to spook the dnc into replacing Biden ?


8 posted on 09/25/2023 7:51:57 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: bitt

Polls, schmolls.


9 posted on 09/25/2023 7:58:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes, male and female but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: bitt

Meh - polls this far out are next to useless, but I have a sneaking sense this is NOT an outlier at this point in time. Much media bedwetting to ensue!


10 posted on 09/25/2023 8:09:56 AM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd )
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To: bitt

First “registered voters” is a laugh. Second, polls are to sway public opinion not measure it. Third, treat all/most polls as entertainment, not information.


11 posted on 09/25/2023 8:12:47 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: CatOwner

Good question, they were quick to call it “an outlier”. Maybe they are trying to help the DNC push Traitor Joe out or maybe they will cook the sample next time to make sure it’s an outlier or it could be something else.


12 posted on 09/25/2023 8:22:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: bitt

The WaPo itself is an out(right)liar.


13 posted on 09/25/2023 8:25:54 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: SERKIT

Polls of registered voters tend to lean Democrat.


14 posted on 09/25/2023 8:30:18 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: bitt

They trash talked their own poll because it did not show them what they wanted to hear! LOL this is too funny


15 posted on 09/25/2023 8:50:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Biden Regime delenda est)
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To: bitt
RUMINT surrounding this is that Russian EW forced an Ukranian drone to land and as the base commander, nearly a dozen other officers and airfield staff got to the drone, it exploded, killing about a dozen including the commander and most of the other officers.

Back in the garage, JOHN BIGBOOTE tries to open the jet car's door.
JOHN BIGBOOTE: It's locked.
He pokes around the jet car.
JOHN BIGBOOTE: John O'Connor, smash the window.
JOHN O'CONNOR: Why me, John Bigboote?
JOHN BIGBOOTE hands JOHN O'CONNOR a wrench.
JOHN BIGBOOTE: It might be booby-trapped.

JOHN O'CONNOR: Oh.
JOHN O'CONNOR smashes the jet car's window.

16 posted on 09/25/2023 9:02:38 AM PDT by null and void ( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
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To: bitt

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17 posted on 09/25/2023 9:19:45 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: SERKIT

“First “registered voters” is a laugh.”

It may be a laugh now but in 2020 they were pretty good indicators.

Universal mail in ballots along with harvesting made “registered voters” into “likely voters”.


18 posted on 09/25/2023 9:19:58 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: sauropod

I’m surprised they published it.


19 posted on 09/25/2023 9:20:48 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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“Ignore our poll, it is an outlier.”

I love the smell of liberal flop sweat in the morning. It smells like victory!


20 posted on 09/25/2023 9:34:51 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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