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Military Times poll: Biden holds 6-point lead over Trump among troops
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514418-military-times-poll-biden-holds-6-point-lead-over-trump ^ | August 31, 2020 | Max Greenwood

Posted on 08/31/2020 10:30:29 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by nearly 6 points among active-duty troops, according to a new Military Times poll released on Monday, suggesting that the president’s support may be eroding among a group he sees as a part of his political base.

The poll, conducted in partnership with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University with participants chosen from Military Times subscribers, showed Biden garnering 43 percent support among active-duty service members to Trump’s 37 percent.

By comparison, a similar poll from October 2016 showed Trump leading then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by roughly 20 points among military voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden2020; fakenews; gaslighting; ismellbs; military; militarypoll; militarytimes; obamapublication; poll; rasmussenreports; scottrasmussen; tds; trump2020
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To: NKP_Vet

Poll conducted by Mattis’s people ?


41 posted on 08/31/2020 10:40:57 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: NKP_Vet

BS meter at 15,000 Rontgens. Yeah the troops support Biden who will send them fight more wars in God forsaken hell holes.


42 posted on 08/31/2020 10:40:57 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: stanne

Sightline Media used to be part of Gannett Government Media, who had swallowed up the former Army Times Publishing Company in 1997 and subverted it utterly. They were spun off to Tegna in 2015, who sold it to LA-based private equity firm Regent who renamed it Sightline.

The owner of Regent, one Michael Reinstein, contributed to Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign. Haven’t found any other info on who he donates to.


43 posted on 08/31/2020 10:41:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: eddie willers

Neah.
The service members are lying to pollsters.


44 posted on 08/31/2020 10:41:40 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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To: NKP_Vet

There’s no doubt that Biden holds at least a 6 point lead among senior military officers.


45 posted on 08/31/2020 10:41:54 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: NKP_Vet

Those polled were drawn from subscribers to The Military Times. From what I have heard, The Military Times has a well-established anti-Trump bias, and so one would assume their subscribers do also. It would be like taking a poll of CNN viewers. If Trump is only six points behind in that crowd, it’s all over for Biden.


46 posted on 08/31/2020 10:42:06 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: NKP_Vet

Almost like they massively over-sampled Democrats to get this result ... again.

It’s all so tiresome.


47 posted on 08/31/2020 10:42:18 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: NKP_Vet

The actual article from the Military Times shows the weakness in the polls. The average of the poll participants is 39 and mostly career officers. Reading between the lines, I suspect that many of the poll participants are unhappy because Trump has kept us out of new wars and armed conflicts.


48 posted on 08/31/2020 10:43:44 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: eddie willers

They have been doing that for a while. See Russia, Russia, Russia for an example.


49 posted on 08/31/2020 10:44:20 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: NKP_Vet

No comment....


50 posted on 08/31/2020 10:44:50 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Sans-Culotte

This same story but without Biden was around last year. Said 50% of “in uniform troops are anti-Trump.”

What next, “like that Secret Service woman*, troops say they will mull over commands of Trump and may decide not to fight in some situations”?

Maybe the same fiction writers composed this one.

*Jan 25, 2017 - “And I would take jail time over a bullet or an endorsement for what I believe to be disaster to this country and the strong and amazing women and ...(Kerry O’Grady, Senior Agent, Denver)


51 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:00 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: NKP_Vet

now THAT has to be the most imaginative BULLsheit article or report YET!

not a chance, not a chance!


52 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: NKP_Vet

The “Military Times” is lefty democrat in point of view. The “Stars and Stripes” it ain’t.


53 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:36 AM PDT by myerson
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To: NKP_Vet

Well this may be a reflection of the military times subscription base not active military. They selected who they polled out of their subscription base. So if this publication has gotten more liberal it would stand to reason any polling from their subscriber base would reflect that

Not a subscriber or active military so I can’t say, but I find it hard to believe they are seeing a 27 point swing in military support away from Trump.

Anyone here an active subscriber? Have they become a woke echo chamber like most media lately?


54 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:38 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: NKP_Vet

Well, good thing most military ballots never get counted since they take too long to get here from overseas /s


55 posted on 08/31/2020 10:45:52 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: myerson

See post 54


56 posted on 08/31/2020 10:46:42 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: faithhopecharity

My daughter spent four years in ROTC where she was the only Obama hater. I would not find this poll hard to believe.


57 posted on 08/31/2020 10:46:49 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: NKP_Vet

The Rats are going to cheat in the election. Count on it.


58 posted on 08/31/2020 10:48:30 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.[)
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To: NKP_Vet

bs, 26 point swing between 16Hillary and 20biden? bs


59 posted on 08/31/2020 10:48:36 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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To: NKP_Vet

B.S.


60 posted on 08/31/2020 10:50:12 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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