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Will The Polls Overestimate Democrats Again?
538 ^ | SEP. 16, 2022 | Nate Silver

Posted on 09/19/2022 7:29:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As Democrats’ prospects for the midterms have improved — they’re now up to a 71 percent chance of keeping the Senate and a 29 percent chance of retaining the House, according to the 2022 FiveThirtyEight midterm election forecast1 — I’ve observed a corresponding increase in concern among liberals that the polls might overestimate Democrats’ position again, as they did in 2016 and 2020.

Even among commenters who are analyzing the race from an arm’s-length distance, there sometimes seems to be a presumption that the polls will be biased toward Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2022midterms; 538; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; mediawingofthednc; natesilver; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; polling; polls; ronklain
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1 posted on 09/19/2022 7:29:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m more concerned that democrats are manipulating the polls to cover their upcoming election fraud.


2 posted on 09/19/2022 7:32:07 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s easier to cheat in state wide elections. They can bust out the “turnout” in teh big city.


3 posted on 09/19/2022 7:36:19 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is the Pope a communist? Are the Ukrainians getting their asses kicked in the war?


4 posted on 09/19/2022 7:37:08 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MinorityRepublican

538 seems to have their finger on the pulse of Democrat cheating.


5 posted on 09/19/2022 7:38:18 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: MinorityRepublican

5-3-8, the seem people that Projected that Hillary was a 99% likelihood to win the presidency in 2016. Never taken anything from them seriously ever since.


6 posted on 09/19/2022 7:40:41 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only pollster I’d admit to voting GOP/MAGA is Richard Barris. And even then I’d likely hang up!


7 posted on 09/19/2022 7:45:02 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: OrangeHoof
Nate Silver said Trump had provably “peaked” five or so separate times, too.

He's a fraud that uses biased polls to justify his shtick.

8 posted on 09/19/2022 7:45:50 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Act Like people still need convincing.

Encourage people to vote


9 posted on 09/19/2022 7:46:34 PM PDT by Bayard
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Nate Silver, Nate Silver???? The leftist whore needs attention. Why post this crap from a whore?


10 posted on 09/19/2022 7:50:26 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Newbomb Turk

Exactly, the margin of fraud will conquer margin of polls.


11 posted on 09/19/2022 7:52:05 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to kep USA viable.s)
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12 posted on 09/19/2022 7:52:39 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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Will they? Will?

They ALWAYS do.

It’s not “going” to happen, it has been and is happening.


13 posted on 09/19/2022 8:00:39 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If anyone is an expert on DNC overestimation, it would be socialist hack Nate Silver.


14 posted on 09/19/2022 8:00:55 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: MinorityRepublican

No brainer! Padding democrat pole numbers to create plausibility of winning in order to cover their vote fraud and election rigging. End of story.


15 posted on 09/19/2022 8:12:50 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nate Silver can go shit in his hat.


16 posted on 09/19/2022 8:13:57 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Democrats are America's most invasive species.)
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I’m more worried that you can’t even measure Republicans versus Democrats because you have submerged Republicans now due to the attacks by the Deep state based on political views. How can you possibly get the right mix of Democrats or Republicans when you can’t even measure the number of Republicans?


17 posted on 09/19/2022 8:15:21 PM PDT by dila813
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Anyone who’s not stupid realizes a poll is nothing more than a blog post. They can make up any outcome they want and fake the data to support it. Propaganda tools for manipulation of voting behavior.


18 posted on 09/19/2022 8:23:49 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Partisan Media Shill and Stooge alert.

19 posted on 09/19/2022 8:54:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Will The Polls Overestimate Democrats Again?

Of course. It's only their bought-and-paid-for media that makes these old Democrat geezers and their younger, indoctrinated, acolytes seem like some sort of vast majority.

So much easier to cheat that way.

20 posted on 09/19/2022 9:19:05 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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