The media never reports Republicans ahead in presidential polling.
In 1980, Reagan-Carter was identified as too close to call. Reagan had clinched it during the debate. The media intentionally ignored that.
In 1984, we were told in March that either Gary Hart or Walter Mondale would stomp Reagan. The media produced front page polls proclaiming that lie. And in 1988 they invented a landslide lead for Dukakis over Bush after the Democrat Convention. If Dukakis had really had that big a lead, he would have won, especially with how the media Palinized Dan Quayle. It was invented by lying partisans and spread as news.
These people are liars. That’s what they do. They spread disinformation for the Democratic Party. Sometimes they have to retreat from their lies. But their polling should never, ever be believed. Sometimes they are right, but they are wrong just as much, if not more.
Does anybody really believe there is a large movement out there for Biden or Hillary to continue this disaster?
Their polls do lie.
I’m seeing that too, in the state I’m in, Kentucky. There are these periodic “Bluegrass polls” financed by a couple of newspaper and TV stations, and they are frequently questionable, as if they’re meant to influence opinion at times. They’re conducted by SurveyUSA, which apparently is a major polling company. This is an interview with someone who at least used to be a top person there about the way it does polls, automated versus live person interviewer, which apparently from the article was and maybe still is controversial:
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/02/the_hotlines_su.html
In last fall’s Senate race between McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes, a poll about a few weeks before the election had Grimes pulling ahead by a few points, which the media excitedly ran with, with only an occasional mention that the poll seemed to be an outlier. I’ve seen similar results to these Bluegrass polls in the couple of years I’ve lived in the state. They’ve reported a couple of times over the last few months that a Rand Paul versus Hillary Clinton match-up in the state is a toss up, and I can’t see that. The state solidly went even for McCain and Romney, and I can’t believe Hillary would have that much support here. SurveryUSA claims to have great accuracy calling elections, but when the election isn’t close, or they’re polling on an issue, they seem to push liberal views, at least in Kentucky.