2020 polls badly understated support for GOP
candidates, review finds, and nobody's sure why
The Week,
by
Peter Weber
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/19/2021 4:32:59 PM
The 2020 polls were off by an "unusual magnitude," missing the national results by the biggest margin in 40 years and erring in state surveys by the greatest amount in at least 20 years, according to a new study released Monday by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). "There was a systematic error that was found in terms of the overstatement for Democratic support across the board," said Vanderbilt University political scientist Josh Clinton, chair of the 19-member task force. "It didn't matter what type of poll you were doing, whether you're interviewing by phone or internet or
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/19/2021 4:34:11 PM (No. 850652)
Rigged the election and STOLE the Presidency
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lamerican 7/19/2021 4:36:54 PM (No. 850656)
duh... because everyone except these eggheads know that polls aren't some kind of reflection of public sentiment and opinion, they are a fabricated fiction designed to support a "narrative" that reflects the actual goals of those who control the grants and funding that employs the organizations that take polls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 7/19/2021 4:38:32 PM (No. 850659)
Simple. If you think your guy is losing badly you are less likely to bother to vote. That's genuine voter suppression.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/19/2021 4:41:17 PM (No. 850661)
ha ha ha , “overstated dem support , only close on the win for xixom joe “ Ha ha ha , which is it blind or stoopid ? fraud stole the election and the steal number was close to the fraud poll number .OMG , havin’ a laugh the journo-0-list is dumber than dirt .
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2021 4:43:17 PM (No. 850662)
LOL! " Nobody is sure why" Perhaps because the polls are as crooked and rigged as the election was?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/19/2021 4:55:09 PM (No. 850669)
Cheating with polls is small potatoes compared to all the other corruption.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimincalif 7/19/2021 4:58:05 PM (No. 850673)
Only an academic could be so willfully obtuse. The polls are no longer about accurately measuring public opinion, like every other institution their main objective is to support The Narrative of Democrats good, Orange Man Bad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lizzyboo 7/19/2021 5:18:02 PM (No. 850691)
President Trump drew crowds of hundreds of thousands to his rallies. Joe Biden had a difficult time drawing flies. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills knew the polls were skewed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
volksford 7/19/2021 5:22:24 PM (No. 850692)
What institution in America can you still trust ?....think about it
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/19/2021 5:26:37 PM (No. 850696)
Because you count way too many democraps than Republican's pretty simple.
Oh and you're as corrupt as the democraps - you knew the elections ware going to be stolen and this was insurance that no one would question the "front-runner" winning.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 7/19/2021 5:28:03 PM (No. 850698)
What do they expect when they severely over count democrat numbers in the polls.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/19/2021 6:33:58 PM (No. 850740)
Because the support was there but the steal was on.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/19/2021 6:46:18 PM (No. 850749)
Sampling and weighting...they ALWAYS sample more Dems than R's...and usually more "Independents" than R's at the same time. Rather than weighting to match the most recent election totals. Interesting that in a story about "Polling Error" they say "Biden vote projection was only off by about One Point.." Then by the very numbers in the same sentence show that it was 1.6points...an error of over 50%. Buuut..."math is Racist" anyway...sooo. Nearly ALL polls and election reporting stories are "Horse Race" coverage, showing Dems ahead to garner "Bet on the Sure thing" voter responses when the votes are finally cast. Notice though that there were NO..."Amazing!! Come from behind in the Home stretch Victory!!!" stories about Bidens "win". Even though he was behind in ALL vote counts election day, election Night...and into the wee'est of wee hours, because that would conflict with their "He was ALWAYS ahead" reporting of the prior months.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
philsner 7/19/2021 7:29:10 PM (No. 850793)
They don't really believe this nonsense do they?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
john56 7/19/2021 8:22:15 PM (No. 850823)
Maybe it's because the Democrats weren't smart enough to steal down ballot elections (with the possible exceptions of the Senate seats in Arizona and Georgia). And my theory is that they thought they had the Presidential election in the bag until about 11 or so on election night when "Plan B" was put into effect. Stop counting in key states and truck in the extra ballots, only marked for Sleepy Creepy Crooked Uncle Joe and Horizontal Harris.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
downnout 7/19/2021 8:38:40 PM (No. 850840)
Every sentient being knows the reason. Polls are propaganda vehicles for the networks and they habitually under poll Republicans.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/19/2021 9:15:04 PM (No. 850862)
Nobody? I'm sure. You sure?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zarin 7/19/2021 9:32:52 PM (No. 850886)
Cause conservative are less likely to be glued to their phones & are out working. Smart people don't pick up a number they don't know with an odd company name attached. As for the Net canvassing - that is suspect too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
davew 7/19/2021 10:36:48 PM (No. 850927)
As Seth Keshel identified in the article below the country registrations in multiple key states showed enormous gains for the GOP and reductions in Democrat numbers. The majority of national pollsters simply recycled numbers of Dem voters based on prior registration levels which resulted in their inflated totals for Biden. Analysis by scientific data analysts on a county by county basis confirms that Biden could not possibly have gotten the numbers he did with only legal ballots from real voters. This is also why audits are needed in all 50 states to detect the blatant rigging that is suspected even in states Trump won but by reduced margins that couldn't be reversed using the midnight mail-in ballot drops that were used in Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, and other swing states.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/19/2021 10:49:00 PM (No. 850934)
Well, duh! The polls were (and still are) crap because the pollsters oversample registered Democrats then engage in statistical flim-flammery to make the oversampling even more lopsided.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 7/20/2021 6:33:01 AM (No. 851073)
Liberal bias coupled with voter fraud. Hope this helps.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 7/20/2021 8:41:27 AM (No. 851185)
The largest voter turn out in history......once you count all the illegal votes.
Proud criminals boasting about their cheating skills.
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Our media apparently isn't too bright. Every single poll overstated Democrat support. Somehow Biden magically 'wins' but Dems underperform in other races across the board.