Posted on 06/17/2017 2:48:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pollsters had major trouble spotting the surge of support for Corey Stewart in Virginias Republican governors primary this week, suggesting they still cant figure out how to successfully survey Trump supporters.
Mr. Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors and onetime Trump campaign chairman in Virginia, ran as the Trump figure in the race, pursuing an anti-establishment message that centered around a tough approach to illegal immigration.
Polling which was strikingly infrequent showed Mr. Stewart failing to crack 20 percent support, trailing Ed Gillespie, the putative front-runner, by as much as 27 percent. In the end, Mr. Gillespie nipped Mr. Stewart by just 1 point, 44 percent to 43 percent. That left a lot of Trump-style Stewart supporters hidden in earlier polls.
Michael McKenna, a Virginia-based pollster and strategist, said the results should be another wake-up call.
Researchers have to do a much better job of making sure that they are getting responses from all kinds of relevant populations, Mr. McKenna told The Washington Times.
The sentiment swept through the polling community last year when surveys, while correctly catching Hillary Clintons popular vote lead, missed Donald Trumps performance in a number of battleground states......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
We came within 4500 votes of not having a Cheap Labor Express stooge as our Gov. nominee.
Never! They will Never give in.
It was intentional, they were trying to make Gillespie seem inevitable.
Damn, does the media mislead.
Easy not to see what you don’t want to see.
Their polls are propaganda based. They deliberately slant them to demoralize conservatives and convince people not to support certain candidates. I don’t believe any poll ever, not one. They are weaponized information.
The problem is the type of questions they ask which are designed to lead the person to answer the way the person wants who is paying for the poll.
So who to vote for in November?
Dem. - RINO (a.k.a. Dem) - 3rd Party - Stay home
? ------------ ? --------------------Yes----------Maybe
I’m not sure that Stewart, whom I supported, makes for a very good Trump avatar. You see, Stewart actually believes things, and has acted on those beliefs for years without wavering.
Weaponized DISinformation.
Haven’t decided yet. I am sick of having one idiot Democrat Governor after another.
Guess we could try for an idiot Democrat in an R jersey.
It’s unlikely Gillespie will win even if I do decide to vote for him. Lots of people won’t bother to get out for a Designated Loser liker Amnesty Ed.
Stay home...until you move out of state.
Unlike President Trump you mean?
Then the polls become "too close to call."
I've seen this pattern so many times, I ignore the polls. I think they're all rigged to help the Democrats, like pretty much everything else in the information culture of our country.
No better example of O'Sullivan's law can be found:
"All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."
They probably cheated to get that result.
IMHO, you forgot the “.sarc” tag. Or, perhaps, you’re simply a Negative Nellie.
Vote for Gillespie — at least he won’t actively war against the Trump agenda as the ‘RAT would certainly do,
Yep, Karl's boy won in Virginia.
Dem. - RINO (a.k.a. Dem) - 3rd Party - Stay home
? ------------ ? --------------------Yes----------Maybe
...but dammit, Trump messed things up!
So THIS time, in Virginia, they won't get it wrong!
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