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Trafalgar Group polls: outliers with uncanny knack for accurately sampling Trump vote
Just the News ^ | 9/21/20 | Carrie Sheffield

Posted on 09/22/2020 8:40:40 AM PDT by chiller

Trafalgar Group, a Georgia-based polling firm known for its ability to correctly sample hard-to-reach, conservative Trump voters, shows President Trump with leads in the key battleground states of North Carolina, Florida and Michigan.

During the 2016 presidential race — widely predicted wrong by the mainstream polling establishment —the Trafalgar Group was the only pollster within the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator to show candidate Donald Trump defeating rival Hillary Clinton in Michigan. Their polls in 2016 also showed Donald Trump winning Pennsylvania — again, they were nearly alone in projecting Trump's narrow victory there — and thus taking the White House.

"Cahaly's success continued in 2018, most conspicuously in Florida," Bevan wrote. "He was one of the few pollsters whose data showed Ron DeSantis beating Andrew Gillum in the Florida gubernatorial race and Rick Scott besting incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson in the Senate race. Cahaly's firm, the Trafalgar Group, has emerged from the last two political cycles as one of the most accurate polling operations in America."

Cahaly last week posted a North Carolina poll showing Trump with a slight lead over Biden, though most other pollsters in the RCP average had Biden ahead:

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; election2020; landslide; polls; shyvoters; trafalgar; trafalgargroup; trump2020; trumplandslide; trumppoll
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Predicting again success in MI, PA, FL and MORE SHY voters than '16
1 posted on 09/22/2020 8:40:40 AM PDT by chiller
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Dems tend to live in the nation that is their Twitter feed. This is why they’re always shocked when reality barges in and rattles their safe space.


2 posted on 09/22/2020 8:44:03 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Ballot harvesting is the issue.


3 posted on 09/22/2020 8:45:46 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Bookmark


4 posted on 09/22/2020 8:46:37 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Dems tend to live in the nation that is their Twitter feed. This is why they’re always shocked when reality barges in and rattles their safe space.

They really should watch FOX in the evenings to understand America.

5 posted on 09/22/2020 8:47:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (evience)
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Mail in ballot registrations have the party affiliation on the outside so they can destroy the ones from republican areas, and create enough in dhimmicrats areas. If the vote totals for Trump are off the charts unprecedented, are we supposed to believe there was unprecedented totals for Biden when the enthusiasm gaps are chasms. There is energy and excitement everywhere for Trump and crickets for Biden


6 posted on 09/22/2020 8:47:43 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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it certainly is, and will be made illegal with a new congress, nationwide , I predict.


7 posted on 09/22/2020 8:47:51 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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Mail in ballot registrations have the party affiliation on the outside

That applies to primaries, not general elections.
8 posted on 09/22/2020 8:50:46 AM PDT by Signalman
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IBD/Tipp has decided to join the dark side this season


9 posted on 09/22/2020 8:50:52 AM PDT by libh8er
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That would be good.

Hoping there’s enough conservative ground action before then to prevent the “count until the Rats win” e.g., Al Franken


10 posted on 09/22/2020 8:52:29 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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With this far out to go before the election, Trafalgar with their accurate polling in the 2016 presidential election as well as the 2018 midterm congressional elections have earned their credibility. With that, no other polling firm should even be considered as valid for 2020.


11 posted on 09/22/2020 8:59:14 AM PDT by Meatspace
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Cahaly recently challenged prominent pollster Nate Silver of 538 (which currently grades Trafalgar's methodology a C+) to a bet on the accuracy of each man's presidential polling outcome accuracy. Cahaly’s comments came after Silver said, “I would not bet” on Trafalgar “being right this year.”
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.@NateSilver538 I’ll take that bet. I’ll wager $10k to the COVID-19 relief charity of the winner’s choice that @trafalgar_grou

Long John Silver is a Democratic Party hack and propagandist.

12 posted on 09/22/2020 9:00:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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“MORE SHY voters than ‘16“

You got that right. In many cities speaking out in favor of Trump can result in loss of friends and family, loss of employment, and physical violence.

I speak out all the time but I have a mean face, 6 foot tall and 240 lbs (should be only 210 lbs but oh well) so I am fairly safe from random one-on-one violence.


13 posted on 09/22/2020 9:03:56 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
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Have they factored in the MASSIVE,NATIONWIDE mail in voter fraud currently conducted by Rat Party Headquarters?
14 posted on 09/22/2020 9:06:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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"Mail in ballot registrations have the party affiliation on the outside so they can destroy the ones from republican areas, and create enough in dhimmicrats areas.

Any agency which does such marking should be sued. There is ZERO need to have such marking on the outside.

15 posted on 09/22/2020 9:12:26 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
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I don’t see how these pollsters even reach people. We get so many robo calls, we rarely answer the phone. We let the answering machine get it. If a recording or the caller ID indicates it’s a poll, I’m not interested.


16 posted on 09/22/2020 9:12:32 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (No Communista!)
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Not everyone shuns the pollsters, like you. I recognize a couple of caller ID’s and answer and give them truthful preferences.

I want pollsters to know I’m supporting Trump. On the other hand, I’ll be quite pleased shy voters give DjT a huge election night drubbing...so overwhelming that post election vote counting won’t make a damn difference.


17 posted on 09/22/2020 9:19:11 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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Did they mention the other battleground States in their article?


18 posted on 09/22/2020 9:27:33 AM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABO UT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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past performance is no guarantee of future results.


19 posted on 09/22/2020 9:31:20 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Definition of give (someone) a drubbing
: to beat (another team or person) easily The other team gave us a drubbing.


20 posted on 09/22/2020 9:40:42 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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