Various polling schemes used to boost Democrat spirits and suppress Republican optimism actually blew up in the pollster’s faces when the 2016 election played out.
Over-confidence based on their own trick polling caused them to lose states they should’ve won. And, as 2020 approaches, it looks like the pollsters are at it again.
As The GatewayPundit reports: “STUNNING. FOX News Plays Trick on Viewers – Oversamples Democrats by 14 POINTS in Junk Impeachment Poll”
Understand, by oversampling Democrats the ‘yeah, let’s impeach’ results get skewed to look as if the American public is coming around to their phony impeachment efforts.
The polling represents normalcy up front, using Political ID numbers of 48% D, 40% R; but looking deeper, at ‘voting in which primary/caucus’ numbers, it’s 48% D, 34% R.
Therein lies the manipulation – you wouldn’t see it unless you pored through details. It may make the ‘impeach/remove’ numbers look stronger, but not if you see it’s skewed.
Or, try this: “What makes Fox News’s ‘Trump impeachment’ poll totally unreliable”
“…issue of impeachment is overtly political, the political make-up of the respondents in any poll is critical. In this recent Fox poll, 48% of those polled claimed to be Democrats, 40% Republican, and 12% independent. However, as Gallup points out in its most recent research, 31% of all Americans identify as Democrats, 29% as Republican and 38% as independent.” Overrepresent D‘s 17%, underrepresent I‘s 26%? (emph. added)
Such over/under representation skews results (for D’s) very nicely, thank you. (And under-representing Indies by 26% likely explains the huge voting-in-caucus disparity.)
Of the two, we see this second scenario as the more easily understood form of polling manipulation. Either way, it’s bizarre Democrats continue to fall into their own traps.
(Hey, are you going to believe the polls…or your own lying brain? Besides, there are a lot of people deeply invested in forcing the right result, and FakeNews needs to be fed.)
Does it mean Democrats look like they may step in it…again…? History says ‘yes’.
Our policy is to NEVER stop those intent on digging themselves deeper into a hole.
Keep those shifty polls coming, guys.