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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 18, 2017, 12:04:47 pm

Title: Fake Polls? How CNN And ABC Are Fudging The Numbers To Tank Trump’s Favorability
Post by: rangerrebew on January 18, 2017, 12:04:47 pm

Fake Polls? How CNN And ABC Are Fudging The Numbers To Tank Trump’s Favorability
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Christian Datoc
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Two polls released Tuesday — one from ABC and a second from CNN — tout Donald Trump as being the most unfavorable incoming president in modern history — yet on second look, the data is clearly boosted by the pollers’ decision to oversample Democrats.
Donald Trump (Reuters Pictures)

Donald Trump (Reuters Pictures)

According to Gallup, 28 percent of Americans identify themselves as a Republican, while 25 percent identify as a Democrat.

Despite this information, eight more percent of participants in both the ABC and CNN polls identified as Democrats, leading to an 11 point swing in partisanship breakdown off the national average.

ABC’s poll sampled 1,005 adults across the nation. However, partisan breakdown shows that only 23 percent of participants identified as Republican.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/17/fake-polls-how-cnn-and-abc-are-fudging-the-numbers-to-tank-trumps-favorability/#ixzz4W78TYLfn

Title: Re: Fake Polls? How CNN And ABC Are Fudging The Numbers To Tank Trump’s Favorability
Post by: libertybele on January 18, 2017, 01:06:31 pm

Anymore many consider them as irrelevant, bogus news sources.