A historically accurate pollster puts the
presidential race within the margin of error
Spectator USA,
by
Peter Hauf
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
10/24/2020 7:05:30 AM
Election polling has been largely consistent since the pandemic hit the US: Joe Biden is the heavy favorite. But one historically accurate pollster is sticking to his own data, which shows a closer race than expected.
Raghavan Mayur is the president and founder of TechnoMetrica, which runs the IBD/TIPP poll. His polling predicted the winner of the past four presidential elections. IBD/TIPP was one of only two polls in 2016 that had Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton. Mayur has received widespread praise for his accuracy, yet he still largely remains an outlier in 2020 polling.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/24/2020 7:29:10 AM (No. 582461)
Shame on US if this race is close and Joe Biden is a heavy favorite. Closer than expected? Almost in the grave, senile Joe Biden was the best democrats could offer with 20 other bad candidates, and he picks the worst of the bunch to be his VP. I can't.
"But one historically accurate pollster is sticking to his own data, which shows a closer race than expected."
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Biden has never been the heavy favorite.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 10/24/2020 7:56:39 AM (No. 582477)
Bull crap...Only if we could read the truth. Read another article that Trump approval at 52%, 42% with blacks, Hispanics is up there somewhere so how can the old gray haired pervert outlaw be the favorite. Don’t try Zander BS a BSer, it just doesn’t work
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 10/24/2020 8:00:38 AM (No. 582480)
Don’t have a clue where Zander came from in previous post🤩
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 10/24/2020 8:15:12 AM (No. 582498)
How any thinking person could watch those debates, follow the Joke Biden campaign and believe he ought to be president is mystifying.
It's got to be all "anti-Trump". Is that enough to win?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232 10/24/2020 8:28:50 AM (No. 582517)
This was never an 8, 10 or 15 advantage Biden election. The polls are "tightening" now....wink wink...nudge nudge.... because the media has to get to some semblance of reality before the votes are counted.
Inflating the polls encourages the winning side and depresses the other side. Tightening polls is an alarm bell to encourage actual voting. Its been the same thing over and over again in every election in my lifetime.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 10/24/2020 8:45:21 AM (No. 582527)
I Couldn't stand looking at that scowl during the debate let alone vote for corrupt politician way past his expiration date. The left advanced the worst candidate in history too close to the presidency. If I was one of these die hard rat party morons i would be so upset. Come on man think about it, look at that cast of clowns during the rat primaries. The only some what palitable one, tulsi, was eaten by the party.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/24/2020 8:57:39 AM (No. 582539)
With due respect to Mr. Mayur's (which in Sanskrit means peacock) he is not looking at the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Not because he isn't aware of it. But it is probably too risky professionally at this time. The phenomenon that took Trump over the top last time - support deliberately concealed by voters, is operating on steroids this time. The US flag has become the substitute for Trump yard signs. My doctor who sees hundreds of patients in Liberal Westchester county told me that almost all patients were voting for Trump and importantly asked to keep it to himself!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/24/2020 9:07:17 AM (No. 582547)
I follow this pollster. He was one, of only Two pollsters, who got the last election right. I think that gives me more confidence in his polls than the FOX polls! I would bet by next week he will have Trump ahead and predict a win for him. I think Trafalgar was the other Pollster getting the last election right and he is predicting a Trump win in 2020. Say what you want, but I would put my money on the guys who were right last time around!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/24/2020 9:07:54 AM (No. 582548)
early voting, going for biden, will give the excuse to mainstream media (which now includes Fox News) will tell everyone to wait u8ntil all the votes are counted. at the same time, we will be offered anecdotal evidence that, while DJT is way ahead, thoswe yet to be counted votes will make Biden the winner. That, in turn, will boost tv ratings substantially.
And when the lawsuits are resolved at the U.S. Supreme Court level, and DJT is reelected, there will be riots in big cities. The loads of bricks are probably already in place.
The riots, in turn, will cause the federal government to appoint an election commission, to avoid future problems. (That happened after the 2000 presidential election, and Jimmy Carter headed up the commission. One of the recommendations? Voter ID.)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
worried 10/24/2020 9:23:49 AM (No. 582561)
Did that pollster take into account the massive democrat cheating that is going to happen? Because it has already started!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bohallx 10/24/2020 9:30:12 AM (No. 582569)
Saturday morning and here I am once again listening to popular Italian, particular Napolitano, music ~ wakes me up!
Ain't the internet great.
But, there's an election on. And once again a bunch of ne'er do wells have made a fortune telling Americans that "Biden is leading" ~ at the same time the far leftwing site Wikipedia has all the data you could ever want on earlier Presidential races, so if you wanted to go back many decades, you could see how Presidential races USUSALLY turn out!
Which I have done.
Usually, somebody wins.
Sometimes nobody wins. So Congress picks the President.
Never been any other way.
But in the run up, there are usually two major parties, and some outliers. One side usually gets about 30%. The other side usually gets about 30% ~ on average ~ over the years!
40% don't vote. Those are the remains of the Federalist party ~ 40% don't think it's right to vote..... they prefer OTHERS to pick those Presidents!
Smart folks!
No guilt.
Anyway, that's more or less the way it will come out ~ POLLING BE DARNED!
Frequently the two top candidates each get less than half the vote. Actually, most of the time......
Well, moved on over to Andre Rieu with waltzes and such ~ not as much jumping around as you get with Tarantela...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
reefdiver 10/24/2020 9:41:56 AM (No. 582582)
This means that the survival of the country is within the margin of error.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 10/24/2020 10:39:51 AM (No. 582646)
Another tidbit that might cheer you.
A millenial friend works in a reasonably large commercial machine shop, mostly making precision, highest quality parts for the aerospace/defense industry. One of his fellow workers is a middle 40s woman from Vietnam. She was dancing and singing at work this week (very badly he said, but irrelevant) and waving a Trump flag, singing the national anthem. He asked her about it, and this normally pretty quiet, even dour woman (an American citizen for decades) was very excited about voting for the first time in her life, and was voting for Trump. She showed him photos of Trump and videos of rallies on her phone, and was very excited. Another, younger Vietnamese woman expressed the same opinions when he asked her.
Trump is pulling out a lot of people who never bothered to vote, who love this country and see that it is now a desperate time and they need to get out there and support him. Some substantial percentage of Trump rally attendees report never voting before or in decades. You can bet if they go to a rally, they will vote.
My friend told me this last night at dinner. I thought it was amazing, as he had mentioned her a few times as a quiet, almost unfriendly, but hard working, very skilled precision worker. And his sister, a bit younger, but also never voting before, contacted me months ago for advice on who to vote for, other than Trump who she had already decided on. Needed help on local and state races.
There may be some real surprises out there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 10/24/2020 2:58:17 PM (No. 582892)
It is sad that it is even close, if it even is.
Primarymodel.com says 362 EC votes for Trump, landslide.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/24/2020 2:58:36 PM (No. 582893)
The pollster business is a scam to get paid for numbers created that those purchasing the poll would like to hear. The public is merely the victim for having to listen to the fictions.
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