Posted on 07/23/2020 5:41:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The media is clearly using skewed polls, as they did in 2016, to suppress votes and discourage Trump supporters by making them think they are oddballs and racists.
The ABC/Washington Post poll is a good example.
President Trump faces a significant challenge in his bid to win reelection in November, with former vice president Joe Biden holding a double-digit lead nationally and the president’s approval ratings crumbling amid a spreading coronavirus pandemic and a weakened economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Instead of polling proper samples in their latest poll, they polled with 24% of their respondents as people who identified themselves as Republican. A proper sample would be at least 33% because that is what people have said in 2016 and 2018. In this poll, Joe Biden had a 15 point lead.
If they had used 33%, Trump conservatively would have picked up six or seven percent and Biden would have gone down a comparable number. A 12% to 14% adjustment would mean the race is a dead heat and that wouldn’t be a good headline to push the leftist agenda. The poll has a 3.5% margin of error.
The economy is usually the most important issue in the election, and a 12% to 14% bump for Trump would mean he would stomp Biden on that issue. Be very wary of polls, done by desperate Democrats with an agenda.
Another way polls are skewed is by polling “independents” ... from blue cities, instead of from smaller cities and rural areas. Guess how that group swings?
A third way they skew the polls is by carefully choosing the wording to get the results they want. For example:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That’s the play. Show Biden in the lead all summer and if he loses accuse Trump of stealing the election. Then set the rioters free and destroy this country from within.
You are an idiot. A pro-Marxist agitator who does nothing but trash the Trump campaign. Go away....forever.
I don’t know about that. Some seem pretty far out on here! I am old enough to know that the pollsters like to show the race tighten up toward the fall to show the “horse race” aspect out of it, and also to show potential clients that they are accurate. It’s all in the sampling!
Why in the hell would anyone take your opinion seriously. He get on here and breathlessly proclaim that Trump is getting crushed. Nothing but gloom and doom from you Karen.
nwrep and CatOwner are trolls. They get on here every f’ing day and play their gloom and doom act to purposely bring down the attitude.
This isn’t even a race...it’s a media propaganda even. Democrats already know they’ve lost.
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You are a freaking troll! There is no debate about it. How much your are getting paid to push the pro-Marxist propaganda in here...Troll?
Black Americans aren’t faring much better with present-day Democrats. Forcing their kids into education prisons rather than offer up school choice or charter schools. Encourage aborting babies because they should do “the right thing”. Discourage traditional families (lots of fatherless children). Coral them into slums.
Why haven't the successful blacks done more? I think it's because they know there are precious few willing to do the work needed and expectations higher than reality... ....and fewer still of successful blacks willing to put the “time” in reaching back with an outstretched hand to help their fellowmen out of these situations.
It has to come from the black community itself. There is no other way.
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