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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess what? Return of "The polls are skewed! They're skewed!"
In the lead-up to the last presidential election, conservative bloggers thought they had discovered a grand conspiracy among pollsters to suppress Mitt Romneys polling numbers, a claim that Romneys campaign appeared to have embraced as well, and declared that the polls must be unskewed to find the truth.
Of course, the polls, if anything, underestimated President Obamas lead, and conservatives who urged Romney supportersnot to believe the polls and instead to expect a Romney landslide were, at least briefly, mocked and humiliated.
One such person who promoted the idea that polls were biased against Romney was Donald Trump, who said that polling firms oversampled Democrats to create an anti-Romney narrative. Naturally, Trump is now saying the same thing about the polls, or poles, that are showing him lagging behind Hillary Clinton.
Yesterday, radio host Alex Jones and WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah urged Jones listeners not to believe the polls showing Trump trailing Clinton, saying that in reality the two are either neck-and-neck or Trump has a double-digit lead.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/return-unskew-polls-donald-trump-edition
Fool myself once, shame on me I guess? Fool myself twice...
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)He gets to say anything he wants, and the crazier the better. He gets to string the GOP along, giving it false hope before it goes down in flames. Let's see who he chooses for Veep. Then we'll know if he's going to try to win, or just messing with their minds. The whole thing is tailor made for a man who loves only himself.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)MFM008
(19,816 posts)around July 4
Polls around labor day should be more explanative (not reliable).
I do believe she is ahead
Id say at least by 5 points... just a feeling.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Posted 5 different times how the WP/ABC poll was skewed.