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Discover How Polling in the Era of Trump
is Just More Propaganda

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Posted By: glagrone2020, 5/14/2025 7:27:57 AM

When President Trump reached the 100 day mark in this his second term, Fake News Media and their counterparts in the Democrat Party went into overdrive pushing the narrative that Trump is the most “unpopular President” ever. These claims were based on selected public opinion polls. The polls were misinformation and, sadly, this was not the first time bad polling was used to push a leftist narrative. In the “age of Trump” public opinion polling from the many of the prominent legacy media polling outfits is slanted heavily toward Democrats and the left. The results repeatedly favor the Democrats and leftists causes.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: RuckusTom 5/14/2025 7:56:59 AM (No. 1949558)
This has been going on forever. There's always an oversampling of democrats in mainstream polls. Why? I've never been given a good answer.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: czechlist 5/14/2025 8:19:09 AM (No. 1949576)
dim media Psy Ops A business which expects repeat customers will provide a product satisfactory to the client. Why would pollsters be any different? And internal poll results (CNN) are a given. As Limbaugh used to caution - polls are used to influence. Only valid election results can measure a poll's accuracy
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 5/14/2025 8:23:52 AM (No. 1949579)
One would think that the pollsters would have embarrassed themselves out of business after being wrong on everything during the last year of the Vegetable Presidency. Then they were forced into trying to tell us that an airhead who had never done an honest day's work in her life was the final humiliation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chillijilli 5/14/2025 8:25:00 AM (No. 1949581)
How I miss the man who managed to get his point across with civility, biting sarcasm, humor and pithy observations. Remember this? "The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you." Rush Limbaugh
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Reply 5 - Posted by: NorthernDog 5/14/2025 8:53:49 AM (No. 1949598)
Let's not forget the infamous poll of Iowa just days before the election: Kamalala 47 Trump 44. Actual results were Trump 56 Kamalala 43. It's almost impossible to be wrong by that much.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 5/14/2025 8:57:36 AM (No. 1949599)
Yeah, not just the 'era of Trump'... unless maybe you are counting from when he was born. I was in the business for a few years back in the 1980s... to make a long story short.... I haven't trusted ANY poll since then. I had to fight my bosses and co-workers, in a few different companies, every step of the way, trying to insure that the poll was an honest and accurate one.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 5/14/2025 9:16:01 AM (No. 1949605)
Yeah, tell us something we don't already know. Propaganda polling didn't just go away with Ann Selzer's retirement.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 5/14/2025 9:33:13 AM (No. 1949612)
Former Harris campaign officials have revealed that while the media were feeding us polls throughout the campaign showing Harris in the lead Harris was never ahead of Trump in any of the secret polls the Harris campaign itself was paying for.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: VAPMAN 5/14/2025 10:02:19 AM (No. 1949630)
These leftist polls are all lies. They sit around a boardroom table and decide on what numbers to put out to try and shape public opinion, always anti Trump. I’m not even sure they actually sample anyone anymore. Look at how Jake Tapper has now admitted to lying about Biden. All these media do is lie. That’s who they are.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: wilarrbie 5/14/2025 11:26:50 AM (No. 1949717)
Never trust polls - as stated, they are meant to FORM opinion, rather than reflect it. To the extent it does reflect opinions - they tend to ask it of those who are ill-informed or so self-centered, it reflects only the myopic views of the eternally disgruntled, cherry-picked to get the preordained results.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: hershey 5/14/2025 12:22:50 PM (No. 1949762)
The final answer is......wait for it....NEVER believe a poll...especially if it paints Trump as being negative...
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