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Are ‘shy Trump supporters’ skewing polls again?
Christian science Monitor ^ | June17th,2020 | Linda Feldman

Posted on 06/18/2020 9:05:01 AM PDT by amnestynone

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To: amnestynone

In the 2020 climate even MORE than 2016 people are unwilling to answer to the affirmative about how they will vote.

A lot of these polls are conducted by phone. Do you think people are unaware that their numbers can be traced to addresses? They know full well, and can just imagine what fascist activist organization is calling them posing as a pollster.


21 posted on 06/18/2020 9:23:05 AM PDT by z3n
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To: amnestynone; All

Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president by sending deep-state, “Orange Man Bad” Democrats and RINOs in both federal and state governments home in November.

Patriots also need to tell new federal lawmakers to give PDJT new chances to nominate real Constitution-respecting patriots to the Supreme Court by impeaching and removing Constitution-ignoring activist justices starting with Gorsuch.


22 posted on 06/18/2020 9:23:57 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ClearCase_guy

With flashes of memory to street anarchy...


23 posted on 06/18/2020 9:24:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
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To: dp0622

> I wasn’t going to say what i would usually say if the odds weren’t 1000 to 3 <

A quick Groucho Marx joke. Groucho, talking as Captain Spaulding:

We were traveling through through the African jungle when we were jumped by African tribesmen. The odds were 1000 to 3. The fight raged on throughout the day, and into the night. The odds were 1000 to 3.

Finally we prevailed. But I’ve got to tell you. Those were the 3 toughest tribesmen I ever did see.

(I am paraphrasing here. I don’t remember Groucho’s exact words.)


24 posted on 06/18/2020 9:27:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Samurai_Jack
You will not find me with my lawn festooned with political flags.

Since you live in MD, I don't blame you, hell you can't even carry in that gulag.

My son lives in MD and when I visit him I have to go medieval, and bring a machete and a hatchet in my vehicle and leave my pistols at home.

In W PA, I will put out multiple Trump signs, and I am working on 9" high metal letters that spell Trump and will be bolted to my oak tree in my front yard.

I will put a video cam outside hooked up {via wifi} to my computer so if anyone destroys my property, I can take appropriate action.

In 2016 I had two Trump stickers on my vehicle, it got keyed, and I didn't catch the perp.

I did prevent another brave demonRAT that was about to key it, but he didn't want to meet Messers Smith and Wesson.

This county went 63-35 for Trump so it is fairly friendly, but the crazies can be violent.

At my age, I don't care. Too old to roll on the ground, but it only takes five pounds of pressure to protect myself.

25 posted on 06/18/2020 9:30:42 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: Leaning Right

ROFL!!

huge fan.

And yeah the guys i was with were tough and i’m quite sure have mafiosi connections.

That means NOTHING in that situation.

I wasn’t going to bend and i wasn’t going to lie and say i supported it.

But i wasn’t going to say i was dead against it either.

“it’s not my concern” seemed appropriate.


26 posted on 06/18/2020 9:30:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: amnestynone

When it comes to pollsters on the phone, Trump supporters are the “Silent Man”. “Silent Woman” too.


27 posted on 06/18/2020 9:31:19 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: amnestynone
But this article from Politico says the opposite.

Trump has a point about the polls:

Excerpt:

But some pollsters, especially the relatively few who conduct surveys in battleground states, are still grappling with the problems that plagued those polls four years ago. In fact, most pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage.

That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states.

And those issues haven’t been fixed.

-PJ

28 posted on 06/18/2020 9:33:38 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: damncat

I do and everything I tell them is incorrect


29 posted on 06/18/2020 9:33:45 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: Leaning Right

“Liberals love to talk to pollsters. They’ll chat all day long. But conservatives have better things to do. We have homes to maintain, cars to fix, and guns to clean.“

I’d like to know what % hang up or otherwise refuse to answer. Surely that’s not an even split.

I just hang up.


30 posted on 06/18/2020 9:37:18 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: dp0622

> “it’s not my concern” seemed appropriate.<

Years ago I was sitting with a friend of mine on a front porch stoop. And this shady black guy came along, and asked us for a donation. To my amazement, my friend starting waving his hands wildly while speaking in Croatian. I knew my friend had Croatian parents, but I didn’t know he was so fluent.

Anyway, the shady black guy got flustered, and moved on.

I would suspect you have that same type of secret weapon, but in Italian.


31 posted on 06/18/2020 9:39:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Good work! I never get called, but if I do I’ll use your script.


32 posted on 06/18/2020 9:43:16 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: Samurai_Jack

I just got some cool TRUMP hats. They look good in my closet where they will stay.


33 posted on 06/18/2020 9:49:22 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: USS Alaska

The polls say Jimmy Carter is going to crush Ronald Reagan.

Yea, they’ve been lying forever...


34 posted on 06/18/2020 9:51:48 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: shelterguy

What happens if those fascists hack the pollsters, get your phone numbers and responses and then come up the driveway. America is no longer a safe environment to express your first amendment rights even in private.

I’m waiting for the first case that comes from someone being fired from their job for their response to a push poll. And please spare me the value signalling from those folks who are retired or self employed.


35 posted on 06/18/2020 9:54:08 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (God Bless you Rush Limbaugh... We are with you.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
I have received four calls from pollsters in the past week.

How in the world are you getting all these calls from pollsters? Most people have never been polled.

36 posted on 06/18/2020 9:55:40 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: Leaning Right

Yes and that’s great thinking.

i can curse them out and maybe they will think i don’t know english.

kill two birds with one stone :)


37 posted on 06/18/2020 9:57:26 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: desertfreedom765

Actually, on the eve of the 1980 election virtually all of them said the race was too close to call. That was the consensus heading in to election day. IIRC, only one poll, the Harris poll, showed Reagan had a lead outside the margin of error.


38 posted on 06/18/2020 9:59:06 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: ClearCase_guy
Yeah it's the old scenario where a husband and wife are interviewed outside the polling station and he nods when his wife says "we're voting democrat" then he goes in the booth alone and votes straight party-line republican. Haha.

The only problem is this year we kinda need the wife to vote R as well.

39 posted on 06/18/2020 10:01:59 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I hope the Republicans run campaign ads emphasizing the anonymity of the voting booth. --

"Are you afraid to reveal how you feel about politics when you are at work? With your neighbors? Even your family? It can seem awfully risky to use your right to free speech. But in the voting booth, you can tell America exactly how you really feel.""

YES!

40 posted on 06/18/2020 10:06:38 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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