What's up with the polls? Mixed numbers for GOP amid terrible week

[mystery-ak]

What's up with the polls? Mixed numbers for GOP amid terrible week
by W. James Antle III
 | August 24, 2018 12:00 AM



The news for Republicans this week hasn’t been good. But if the headlines augur a blue wave in November, the polling has been less consistent.

In the aftermath of Paul Manafort’s conviction and Michael Cohen’s plea deal, the polling outlook for Republicans in Wisconsin actually improved (though the surveys were conducted before the latest developments for these two former associates of President Trump).

Gov. Scott Walker has been trailing in his bid for a third term, after winning a recall election between his 2010 and 2014 races. Then the respected Marquette poll came out this week showing Walker tied with Democratic nominee Tony Evers at 46 percent apiece.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is one of the ten Democratic senators running for re-election in a Trump-won state this year, but she hadn’t been considered especially vulnerable. She led by 17 points in a July NBC News/Marist poll and 14 in an Emerson survey later that month.

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[Free Vulcan]

I've noticed that polls that model according to traditional turnout are generally highly GOP friendly.

The polls have done the usual Dem psyops to suppress the GOP vote, but as we get closer to elections, the pollsters start making their models more realistic so as to not ruin their credibility.

[Timothy Dennis]

What's up with the polls? Basically, they're a waste of time. I point you to the 2016 presidential election whereby nearly EVERY poll had Clinton winning by a landslide. Nearly every one. What does this tell us? Well, for one, they cannot be relied on. Two, they are conducted with political bias most all of the time. So, ignore them, for they are as variable as the weather.