Posted on 06/16/2016 6:19:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
According to nationwide polling data, Republican Party affiliation has averaged 28% for 2016 so far, and it also averaged 28% since the start of May. This agrees well with the CBS News poll's composition.
On the other hand, the last time the Democrats were at 35% was early March...of 2013. Since May of this year, Democratic party affiliation has averaged 29%, just 1% higher than the Republicans, not 7% higher.
As a result, this CBS News poll appears to be biased in favor of the Democrats by the same margin that Clinton purportedly holds over Trump, meaning that if the bias is removed, so is Clinton's lead, and we have a statistical tie.
CBS claims that "[t]his poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls." If so, those standards need to be higher, since the polling release should also include all detailed demographic breakdowns for age, sex, race, education, geographic location, income, ideological leanings, etc. This would allow us to look for even greater bias beyond the obvious R. vs. D. party affiliation divide.
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Didn’t we have the same discussion back in 2012? Remember unskewedpolls.com?
How did that work out for us?
Yep!! Even TCM had a string of Mexican movies this morning one right after the other..think Turner was trying to make a statement... Do bears chit in the woods?!!.. stinkinscumMEDIAwhores!! HAT’EM!!
I remember that.
It’s see bs.
I hope rush sees this and talks about it tomorrow!!
Rather Han worry about polls let each of us commit to find a person or two to vote for Trump who otherwise would not have.. That will be the best revenge
CBS=Clinton Bias Syndrome
Imagine how bad the phony polls & media worship of Hillary will be, when the FBI announces no indictment. Wouldn’t surprise me to see her 15 points up in these fantasy MSM polls.
Brace yourselves.
good point. I was thinking exactly the same thing.
“All those polls showing Obama ahead oversampled Democrats. That’s why I never worried about having to campaign too hard.” - Mitt Romney
Remember doing this same “correcting bias” thing back in 2012?
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Yep, and then Romney choked like a dog and it all went to hell.
Having said that, treat the polls as accurate, and then don’t despair but instead work all the harder to overcome.
I remember picking apart the polls like this in 2008 and 2012. That didn’t turn out so well.
Trump has to get his act together. The media is no longer going to treat him as a fun ratings grabber. They are going to go full on against him. The country wants handouts and Hillary is Santa Claus.
It is safe to say that he is behind at this point.
Trump has to get his act together. The media is no longer going to treat him as a fun ratings grabber. They are going to go full on against him. The country wants handouts and Hillary is Santa Claus.
Have you been asleep the last few months? The MSM has been carpet bombing Trump just about non stop since the KKK nonsense in February.
Can we burn Mexican Flags? I guess so. Protected speech right?
I remember the skewed polls as well. But Romney choked.
This time four years ago between the last Primary and just before the RNC Convention, Romney took a vacation.
Is Trump letting up? Is Trump chilling out? No he is not. He is out campaigning hard.
And finally the media. Yes they dislike Trump, yes they twist the stories to fit a narrative. But the media can not stop covering him. And the final thing with the media, I think the majority of the populace have finally wised up to them. Soviet Citizens did not take long before they were able to “Read between the lines” and get the nugget of truth thru wavery of crap form their Pravda.
I agree, stick to the battleground state polls.
Going, going, gone...
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