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Friday, October 28, 2016

The Death of Polling

A few days ago, I wrote about the clearly biased nature of the ABC News tracking poll that was getting major coverage in all the mainstream media.  Clinton was up by 12% according to the experts who did the poll for ABC News.  That was the headline everywhere.  It did not matter that other polls were showing the race getting tighter; it was over and Clinton had won.  Now, a few days later, that same ABC tracking poll shows Clinton ahead by 4%.  That doesn't matter.  There's now an AP poll that shows Clinton ahead by 14%.  That's the story that many of the mainstream media is running.  Of course, while the ABC poll was rigged by using a sample with 9% more Democrats than Republicans, the AP poll actually uses 12% more Dems than GOP voters.  It's super-rigged.

It's a funny but rather sinister thing.  Anyone who looked at the ABC poll four days ago knew that it was rigged.  It polled a group that had way too many Democrats to accurately reflect America.  The polling "experts" working for ABC had 9% more Democrats than Republicans in the poll.  These experts well knew that we haven't had an electorate show up at the polls in many decades that had such a big lead for Democrats.  They still skewed the results by using those figures.  They fixed the poll.  Since then, they have been daily correcting the mix.  Now after four days of "corrections", we have a 4 point race.  ABC had its pollsters take the pro-Clinton shot.  They put out a poll that said Clinton had it wrapped up and the media trumpeted it around the nation.  One has to wonder how many potential Trump voters decided not to bother to go to the early voting places because they thought Trump had already lost.  And that's the point.

ABC and its so called experts didn't want to come to election day with the wrong results, however.  That's why the poll moved so quickly towards Trump.  It's also why, however, the other media no longer tell us non-stop about the ABC poll.  They use the AP poll instead.  AP will no doubt close quickly in a short time.

So much of the news coverage of the election focuses on polls rather than issues that the quality of our elections are hurt.  Nevertheless, that's the way it is.  If the media is rigging the polls to help Hillary, however, then we have a scandal of extreme importance.  It means that much of the coverage is rigged and the mainstream media knows that.

For those of you who are wondering if this is all an honest mistake, consider this:  any pollster will tell you that the key to the results is getting the proper mix of people in your sample.  The ABC pollsters know that.  The AP pollsters know that.  These two bogus polls are not mistakes.  They are intentional lies used by the media to help Hillary.

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