Are Polls The Biggest Joke In Politics?

Townhall.com ^ | June 19, 2019 | Timothy Meads

[Kaslin]

President Donald J. Trump shocked many with his 2016 victory, particularly those who believed the polls that the mainstream media continuously pushed as proof there was simply no way that the real estate mogul could knock off the self-appointed heir-apparent Hillary Clinton for the presidency. However, he did win and did so in a dominating fashion. The polls were wrong in large part, Trump's 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale argues, because the polling methodology is outdated and cannot capture the diversity of opinions through the American electorate. 

"The country is too complex now just to call a couple of hundred people and ask them what they think. There are so many ways, and different people that are gonna show up to vote now," Pascale told CNS News Washington Chief Correspondent Major Garrett in an exclusive interview. "The way turnout now works, the abilities that we have to turn out voters – the polling can't understand that. And that's why it was so wrong in 2016. It was 100% wrong. Nobody got it right. Not one public poll."

Recently, several polls show that President Trump would lose to numerous Democratic candidates if held today.  "None of these polls mean anything," Parscale rebutted. "It's the biggest joke in politics. It's the fakest thing. It's the fakest thing."

Internal campaign polls as well showed that the president was losing to current 2020 Democratic primary candidates, but campaign spokespeople clarified these were "worst case scenario" polls and also outdated.  Spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told "Fox & Friends" that "those numbers were accurate," but "they were from three months ago, they were pre-Mueller report, they were the worst-case scenario and the most unfavorable turnout model."

"All news about the president's polling is completely false," Parscale said in a separate interview. "The president's new polling is extraordinary and his numbers have never been better."

Whatever the current polling, President Trump surely does not seem to be lacking enthusiasm from his base. As Townhall covered earlier, the incumbent president raised an astounding $24.8 million yesterday and attracted more than 100,000 supporters to his Orlando re-election rally. 

[WWG1WWA]

Polls have turned into a propaganda tool. They are worthless.

[prairiebreeze]

Polls are part of the BIG MONEY associated with elections and the media. They help sell advertising, try to influence the electorate and create the horse-race that the media MUST have....even when one doesn’t exist.

[MeganC]

Four out of five pollsters think the other six are wrong.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, my friend. This will be used a lot in the coming weeks/months.

If Trump's polling numbers were good, would the MSM even tell you?

That's all you need to hear right there.

35 posted on 6/19/2019, 12:24:02 PM by SamAdams76

[RipSawyer]

My survey indicates that one hundred percent of polled cattle have no horns.

[N. Theknow]

You wouldn’t steer us wrong now would you?

[Brown Deer]

Polls?

follow the money! Trump is on top with ALL the bookies!

The list of potential winners of the 2020 United States presidential election has been cut in half in the latest odds release and Republican voters will be happy to see that Donald Trump’s re-election odds continue to look promising.

https://www.oddsshark.com/other/2020-usa-presidential-odds-futures

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2020/winner

https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/politics/us-presidential-election-odds/

[Liz]

Democrats’ rampant voter fraud is the only threat to Trump’s re-election.

They keep finding ways to diminish the American voter:

Soros-backed Secy of State Project (voting Leftists into these offices-—they set the voting rules.

Ballot Harvesting

Ranked Voting

Compacts between states to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote

Efforts to persuade electors in the Electoral College to swing votes depending on what the Left desires, not the voters in the state.

Efforts to outright remove the Electoral College and implement a national popular vote.

Relaxation of absentee ballot provisions

Extension of both absentee ballot and in-person voting time frames, opening the voting process up as much, and as long as possible to increase the odds of successful voter fraud

Motor Voter Registration

Opposition to Voter ID laws

Opposition to maintenance of voter rolls

Gerrymandering of voting districts (both sides do this, but it is done primarily by the Left for political advantage, not to correct a wrong situation)

Outright voter fraud

They are attacking this on many fronts, and I believe they are succeeding. The Secretary of State Project, ballot harvesting and “ranked voting” seem pretty innocuous, but they will eventually have large impacts.

We need to fight these traitors tooth and nail.