Fake polls destroy media credibility
by Brad Parscale
| June 08, 2020 09:04 PM
The purveyors of fake news at CNN are convinced, just as they were four years ago, that they have this presidential election in the bag. Donald Trump is done, and Joe Biden is headed for a landslide, just like Hillary Clinton was.
At this point, they have zero credibility left.
As before, CNN’s confidence is severely misplaced — and we’re going to prove it. The best evidence they can present are polls that suffer from exactly the same flaws as the ones that indicated a landslide victory for Clinton in 2016.
To the delight of liberals everywhere, the Atlanta-based hub of fake news recently put out a poll showing Biden with a 14-point lead in the race, with 55% of the vote to Trump’s 41%, a larger share than any presidential candidate has received in an actual election since Ronald Reagan garnered 58.8% in his 1984 shellacking of Walter Mondale.
Before they start celebrating, though, Democrats should recall the old adage about things that seem too good to be true. Trump hired the renowned and respected polling firm John McLaughlin and Associates to analyze the methodology that produced those dubious results, and its assessment was devastating.
CNN’s latest wonder is a poll of all adult voters, with no effort made to sort out which people are likely, or even registered, to vote. This method of polling consistently undercounts Republican turnout, as more-reputable polling outfits have long understood, and as CNN should have learned from 2016.
As a result of this lazy (and cost-saving) methodology, more than 10% of the respondents in CNN’s poll are not even registered to vote in November.
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