Posted on 09/25/2015 3:42:22 PM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trump has two words to describe a recent spate of articles that suggested he may be losing steam in the Republican presidential primary: "dishonest reporting."
"Very dishonest and the people understand that," Trump said in a conversation with Business Insider
...by CNN, Politico, and The Washington Post used recent polls from Quinnipiac and CNN/ORC to argue that the surge that propelled Trump to the head of the GOP pack may be ending....
CNN's Eric Bradner came in with a story of his own a few hours later. Bradner said the Quinnipiac poll "reinforce[d] a recent CNN/ORC poll that showed an ascendant Fiorina..."
That story was headlined, in part, "Donald Trump lead shrinks."
The Washington Post's Philip Bump was up next...the claim that "Donald Trump's slide in the polls is beginning to look real."
Business Insider reached out... Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said the media is motivated to diminish Trump's standing.
"Look, I think the media in general wants to have a narrative that this race is either tighter than it really is," Lewandowski said. "Or they want to propel other candidates into the forefront because they know that Mr...
"If you were any other candidate in this race, you would welcome the opportunity to have Mr. Trump's poll numbers," he said.
Trump and his team pointed to a slew of polls to dispute the notion that he's losing steam...
"It's dishonest reporting and — let me change it — it's knowingly dishonest," Trump said. "Because the polls speak for themselves. I'm up. Check out Zogby. Check out Reuters — the Reuters — what do they call that? The Reuters average..."
All of the polls show Trump well ahead...
In addition to these national numbers, ... Specifically, they identified an Iowa poll by PPP and a Sunshine State poll...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Who are David, Lester, Scott, and Gwen? Like we’re supposed to understand some obscure reference to your peeps.
RCP does NOT use all polls. They use their own criteria on which polls to use for averaging.
Do you know which other candidate running for 2016 nomination would not kill to get Trump’s number, even the 24 number which excludes many other polls with much higher numbers for Trump?
You think Bush would love to have 24?
Do you think Rubio would love 24?
Do you agree FioRino would kill for 24?
Would Cruz people be happy if Cruz was at 24?
Even Carson might break out in a high energy smile at 24.
RCP does NOT use all polls. They use their own criteria on which polls to use for averaging.
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That is true.
But my experience is that they pick the best of the polls. While you very often see bias in the individual polls I’ve not detected that sort of thing with RCP. In fact the averaging of the polls tends to cancel out those biases.
I believe their criteria is based on an analysis of the polls for sample size, error margins and the makeup of the sample population.
Do you know which other candidate running for 2016 nomination would not kill to get Trump’s number, even the 24 number which excludes many other polls with much higher numbers for Trump?
You think Bush would love to have 24?
Do you think Rubio would love 24?
Do you agree FioRino would kill for 24?
Would Cruz people be happy if Cruz was at 24?
Even Carson might break out in a high energy smile at 24.
I’m not picking on Trump.
I’m just pointing out that his current poll numbers have been, for a relatively brief time, been higher than they are now. That’s just a fact. So I don’t understand why Trump is making such a fuss. Polls go up and down. Right now he’s down a bit. No big deal.
Those are the names given to the biggest piles of lying manure in the ABC-NBC-CBS-PBS cow pastures.
Fair enough.
First primary in Iowa (caucus) is 3+ months away. Anything can and will happen.
Those are the names given to the biggest piles of lying manure in the ABC-NBC-CBS-PBS cow pastures.
That makes me doubly glad that I don't even remember when I stopped watching the mainstream alphabet networks. I do wish I could remember when I quit smoking. That's something I wish I could celebrate.
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