Also as usual, the polls are meant to form opinions instead of inform AS TO opinions. As an example, there is an article out today, "WDIV/Detroit News survey found the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is dead even at 41%-41%."
From the article:
"Other key findings from the survey:
Among men, Trump holds a wide lead of 50.3%-35.3%, with 8.0% of men going to Kennedy – a Trump lead of 15.0% among men. But among women, Harris leads 47.4%-33.0%, with 11.2% going to Kennedy – a Harris lead of 14.4% among women.
Among African American voters, 82.1% support Harris, 11.5% support Kennedy, no black voters in this survey supported Trump."
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Now how slanted does the poll have to be if they found absolutely no black person who says they support Trump? None? Not one? It seems to me that the pollsters carefully selected those polled in order to get the result they wanted. Maybe they called people selected from an ActBlue donation list. The article can be found here:
"Poll methodology:
The Glengariff Group, Inc. conducted a Michigan statewide survey of November 2024 likely general election voters. The 600 sample, live operator telephone survey was conducted on July 22-24, 2024 and has a margin of error of +/-4.0% with a 95% level of confidence. 17.8% of respondents were contacted via landline telephone. 82.2% of respondents were contacted via cell phone telephone. This survey was commissioned by WDIV Local 4 News and the Detroit News."
There's a number of possibilities. Something in how they asked the question perhaps. They don't tell us the exact question. The people who did the polling could have even put down something different than what they were told.