To: xzins
No legitimate poll will want to ruin its credibility over one election. Watch for the rogue, rigged polls to show Trump “strengthening” as election day nears to cover themselves after they feel they have accomplished their goal to help Hillary as much as possible.
To: Doctor Freeze
No legitimate poll will want to ruin its credibility over one election. Watch for the rogue, rigged polls to show Trump strengthening as election day nears to cover themselves after they feel they have accomplished their goal to help Hillary as much as possible.
Maybe.
The media has never ruined their credibility over a single election before (they have always maintained a kind of plausible deniability in terms of bias -- plausible to relatively low information voters, and to those ideologically on the left). But they have done so, this time. They are no longer pretending. The Republican establishment has never sacrificed their (false) claim to be the opposition to the Democrats. Until recently, when they have become overtly anti-Republican voter. They, too, are no longer pretending. The Republican donor base has always maintained a fiction of "conservatism". Until this election. Now, they are no longer pretending.
This election is different. I have no doubt that wavering journalists are being told there will be severe career consequences if they don't actively oppose Trump. I have no doubt that establishment Republicans have been told that the gravy train ends if they don't do everything they can to stop Trump. And ... I have no doubt that pollsters have been told that if they ever want contracts in the future, they have to manufacture poll results that fit into the coordinated media narrative. Reputation be damned.
Bottom line: These polls are going to probably remain ludicrously biased up until election day.
To: Doctor Freeze
The Gallup 1980 trick was to poll just before the election—finally showing a Reagan lead—but not publishing it until after the election!
No scam is too low for the dirtbag pollsters!
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10/14/2016 11:39:57 AM PDT by
cgbg
To: Doctor Freeze
Good point, Doctor Freeze. But I have to wonder if there is any such thing as a “legitimate” poll any more — aside from the internal polling done by the campaigns.
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