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Do Not Trust the Polls - October Surprise Thread #1
The Vanity Post | October 1st, 2016 | 1Eagle

Posted on 10/01/2016 8:26:40 PM PDT by 1-Eagle

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To: Chode

they have to have her leading in the polls to help them fix/steal the voting numbers


That’s right.

They need to manipulate the polls so they can match it with the voter fraud.


41 posted on 10/01/2016 11:12:54 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 1-Eagle

And .. just like with the Bush/Gore numbers, the LEFT will always over-inflate the DemoCRATS .. making it impossible to properly judge what the numbers truly are.

Just keep on .. keeping on .. and don’t worry about the polls.


42 posted on 10/01/2016 11:59:45 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: 1-Eagle

Ignore all media

Get Out The Vote


43 posted on 10/02/2016 12:30:19 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: TheCipher

If they do a truly random poll, and discover that the results don’t match what they have decided in advance is to be the R/D/I mix (e.g. 2012 turnout numbers), they have to throw away responses to achieve that mix.

Which responses are thrown away and how do they decide? Are they more inclined to toss “anomalous” responses, such as Democrats supporting Republicans?


44 posted on 10/02/2016 12:50:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: AndyTheBear

Because polls have been used as propaganda with great effect, I can’t see how we just ignore them. We ignore them at our peril. Even if some of us here at FR are immune, our neighbors are not. We have to get the word out that the only important thing is that we vote, without allowing any media including polls results to demoralize us.


45 posted on 10/02/2016 1:18:39 AM PDT by 1-Eagle (B.Franklin: "A Republic...if you can keep it." Let us all resolve to be Keepers!)
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To: Fresh Wind
Herman Cain talked about this at some length I think on Thursdays show. While I'm at it, let me say I love his show! Herman Cain's Website

They have different formulas to make sure the sample matches the population (ie: if population is 49% democrat the sample of democrats is adjusted to match). Which makes the results SEEM to be scientific but there is just no telling who will win on Nov 8th. So it comes down to this: Polls might help candidates make decisions on where to spend money, but otherwise they are useful only as propaganda (voter suppression) which is exactly how they were used in 1996 to demoralize the Dole/Kemp ticket.

46 posted on 10/02/2016 1:33:05 AM PDT by 1-Eagle (B.Franklin: "A Republic...if you can keep it." Let us all resolve to be Keepers!)
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To: HamiltonJay

I think part of me is just going to be somewhat paranoid until the election is over even though I know and trust that God is in control and all things are according to plan.


47 posted on 10/02/2016 1:37:56 AM PDT by 1-Eagle (B.Franklin: "A Republic...if you can keep it." Let us all resolve to be Keepers!)
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To: MHT

I am sure both campaigns have internal polls on those bellwether counties.

The only way to figure out what is going on is to access to that data (hackers, hint, hint, hint :-) )


48 posted on 10/02/2016 2:37:25 AM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: 1-Eagle

Why don’t we have a FREEPERS poll?


49 posted on 10/02/2016 6:42:54 AM PDT by jch10 (Stand strong! we have a country to save!)
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To: ichabod1
Look, I know as well as anyone here, that polls are manufactured to push public opinion rather than capture it.

Until proven otherwise, any poll with somewhat valid internal breakdowns and a history of credibility needs to be taken seriously.

I can count a few times when this was ignored and we lost bad, like in 2006 and 2012.

50 posted on 10/02/2016 6:55:42 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: 1-Eagle

Good post, good points.

But the only thing that really matters is that we ALL go and vote.

The rest is noise.


51 posted on 10/02/2016 7:12:17 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: wastoute

I’m not saying there was no fraud - there was.

But I’m duly souring your other statement - that the polls were right in 2012.

There’s no way you can ever confirm that because you can go back measure the voter suppression from demoralizing false polls. The aura of inevitability created by false polls is extremely powerful - it is the ultimate self fulfilling prophesy.

Since the poll is basically a prophesy that the republican is losing by a huge margin, then because republicans believe it, and are demoralized, and don’t bother turning out to vote, the prophesy is self fulfilled, and therefore proven “right” as you say.

But it wasn’t right at the time, it was a lie.

This is no different than the lies Clinton tells during the debate which are “fact checked” as “true”. Or true Trump statements that proven to be lies by so called “fact checkers”.

I think there is fraud but not on a scale as significant as the self fulfilling prophesy of false polls, which suppress republican turnout.

If Trump can somehow prolong his aura of winning so that his supporters remain excited and hopeful, and show up to vote - he will win in a landslide.

If the media succeeds in painting a picture that it’s over for Trump, he as no chance, - I’m really afraid a significant percentage of his support will move on and find something else to cheer about, maybe their favorite football team, and forget about Trump.

I hope I’m wrong. But meanwhile - don’t believe the polls if they begin to show Trump losing from here out!

Go Trump!!


52 posted on 10/02/2016 7:49:05 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated

Duly souring? Jeez. That was meant to be “disputing”


53 posted on 10/02/2016 7:50:56 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: 1-Eagle
Bump.


54 posted on 10/02/2016 7:57:36 AM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: caww

So what exactly are they basing any poll numbers about her anyway???


Voter fraud.


55 posted on 10/02/2016 9:41:57 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson
Oh of course it's fraudulent......polls will always be only from a select peoples and depending on who is doing them will lean one way or the other regardless of how they are framed. But it's beyond ridiculous how they're shaping polls regarding Hillary.....obvious the intentions are to give her the “Coronation” she's desired for decades and rather than her proving herself in any way it's a drive to get her down the aisle to be crowned.......she's done nothing in her run for this high office but let others excuse and carry her for not actually running a race......she hasn't been in it through any effort as a candidate... but in name only.
56 posted on 10/02/2016 10:55:17 AM PDT by caww
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