Then they always act shocked and surprised when their polls are wrong. They know what they’re doing.
I think the standard argument is that they poll more Democrats simply because the population contains more Democrats.
But I believe the Democrats have lost over 1000 political seats (net) at all levels, all across the country over the past 8 years or so. This is not a Majority party no matter how you slice it.
The population contains more Republicans than Democrats. But the thought of actually polling that way terrifies the Establishment.
A tip of the hat to everybody here who sniffed this out at the time and/or posted articles last fall noting these oversamplings of Dems. That said to me that Trump’s blowout rallies were real, not to be dismissed as just local carnival shows for the rubes.
And that kept me, and I would guess some of the rest of us, off the ledge.
Pollsters are not entirely to blame. Conservatives are far more likely to hang up on us that Pajama Boy lurking in Mommy’s basement, or the welfare mom waiting for her EBT to come through. Conservatives have productive lives and often don’t have time for polls.
Note: Professionals should remove that bias, but there is so much more money in lying for the media than in telling the truth.
Come on, now...you really cannot believe that the overwhelming number of Americans believe any polling numbers from the mainstream media. LMAO!!! Real numbers for Trump range in the high fifties, and climbing!!!
Read my lips...The Democrat Party, the National Football League and The National Basketball Association are all self-destructing themselves!!! Go figure!!!
Obviously, it was the Russians! (/sarcasm)
And how many illegal aliens with stolen social security numbers?
I think it would be an interesting exercise, at least from the pure math aspect, to conduct a reverse sample percentage. By that, I mean to take a given result (election results) and then work backwards to the poll / sample percentages.
Then use that set to go forward. It would be interesting to see how close that model then comes in the next election.
“The Economist” should be renamed “The Communist”. They are one-world-order buggars.
I disagree that presidential election polls taken in the last weekend of the campaign were fraudulent.
From memory...
There were 21 national polls taken.
None of those polls asked if Trump would win the Electoral College. All the polls just measured the popular vote.
16 of the 21 polls called the popular vote within the margin of error, which was usually plus or minus 3%.
One of the polls that scored outside the margin of error called the popular vote for Trump.
And one of the polls that scored inside the margin the error called the popular vote for Trump.
Almost all of the weekend polls claimed Clinton would win the popular vote by 3%-5%.
She actually won by 2.1%.
This country is in danger.
And the democratic party is a bigger danger to the country than any threats from outside the country.
We are in a war, and the enemy is destroying us from within.
This has gone on for years.
Why doesn’t Karl Rove demand pollsters stop with these tactics?