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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:38 PM Aug 2016

Fox and Friends: This new smartphone app proves that polls are wrong and Trump is winning

With Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s poll numbers in free-fall, some on the right are having trouble coping with reality. On Tuesday morning, the crew at Fox and Friends turned to an anonymous smartphone app called Zip for reassurance about the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.

According to Media Matters, Zip’s founders would have you believe that the real reason former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is winning in the polls is because people are showing “a reverse Bradley effect,” not answering pollsters honestly because they don’t want to be judged for supporting Trump. Zip’s anonymous question and answer format, they said, allows people to show their Trump support without the stigma.

Co-host Steve Doocy said, “Hillary Clinton tops Donald Trump in the latest national polls,but if you ask voters anonymously who they like, the results are a lot different. And evidence of that can be found through an app called Zip, the question and answer app.”

Doocy asked Zip’s creator Alanna Markey, “OK, so your results are a lot different than the — what we see of the RealClearPolitics average…Alanna, explain why the answer — your results are so much different than the polls we’ve been seeing.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/fox-and-friends-this-new-smartphone-app-proves-that-polls-are-wrong-and-trump-is-winning/

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Fox and Friends: This new smartphone app proves that polls are wrong and Trump is winning (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
So, they are admitting that Trump's supporters want to hide the fact that they are racist too. tonyt53 Aug 2016 #1
Doh! CentralMass Aug 2016 #2
2016 unskewed.com exboyfil Aug 2016 #3
We will see a rerun of this in the fall LOLOLOL workinclasszero Aug 2016 #11
Turn the machines back on exboyfil Aug 2016 #12
Love it! workinclasszero Aug 2016 #13
They may want to rename it Turdblossom. C_U_L8R Aug 2016 #4
So, the logic here is LoverOfLiberty Aug 2016 #5
Can't argue with that logic. Guess we're all hosed. Curtland1015 Aug 2016 #6
It's a social media app, so this is the equivalent of a Twitter Poll. eom MohRokTah Aug 2016 #7
Clicky-clicky! NurseJackie Aug 2016 #8
Actually, if you apply to the Rudy Giuliani principles, you can understand why they think this way liberal N proud Aug 2016 #9
Unskew those polls republicans!! workinclasszero Aug 2016 #10
There is more than one reason they promote these types of things on CNN and Fox. NCTraveler Aug 2016 #14
"but if you ask voters anonymously who they like"... brooklynite Aug 2016 #15

LoverOfLiberty

(1,438 posts)
5. So, the logic here is
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:44 PM
Aug 2016

that someone will be dishonest with a phone or personal pollster for privacy concerns, but they would download an app on their mobile device and spill their guts?

I'm not buying it, for this and a host of other reasons.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
6. Can't argue with that logic. Guess we're all hosed.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:44 PM
Aug 2016

Pack it up everyone. Trump has this one all sealed up.

liberal N proud

(60,336 posts)
9. Actually, if you apply to the Rudy Giuliani principles, you can understand why they think this way
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 12:54 PM
Aug 2016

Giuliani, during his RNC rant, literally told them all that Up is Down and Down is Up.

So then if you are down in the polls, you must truly be up.

Oh my head hurts

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
14. There is more than one reason they promote these types of things on CNN and Fox.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:15 PM
Aug 2016

Look at what they did on CNN with the debates and Facebook polls. They knew the outcome beforehand and that a group of low information viewers would latch onto them. It was flat out embarrassing. It creates division and they know it. That division is their goal. Emotionally invested people will spend more time watching.

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