16-10-15 POLL POOP SATURDAY SIDEBAR

POLL POOP – SATURDAY SIDEBAR 10/15/2016
It amazes me that the current polls are so obviously biased.
I give credit to the polling firms, who I feel are also in the tank for the Clinton campaign along
with the media. With the media’s help, they know that if they can get the poll headline to read
their way, fill in the bullshit list under the headline with really ‘favorable’ poll questions &
percentages of respondents to show that favor to their point of view, disregard the uncomfortable
leaning answers and put the opposition down, they have accomplished what’s expect of the
fawning faithful hoping to garner favor at some point in the future.
In a couple of polls I wrote about earlier I’ve talked about my take on each poll’s bias. I can
readily spot the obvious lean in party affiliation or gender that they don’t hide or try to blur in the
poll methodologies. They are hoping nobody digs in.
I also have my opinion as to the methods the polls use to determine ‘likely voters’. I feel they’re
missing the newly registered voters (which by all accounts that I’ve read along with some
personal knowledge of some really interested folks are a pretty decent number of voters) by
using outdated voter rolls or relying on the fact the respondent voted in 2012. This is a hidden
+Trump.
This is similar to the Romney polls and his loss in 2012 only the reverse. The 2012 poll average
had Romney winning. Folks who were kind of squishy about Romney because of his faith were
affected deeply by the Democrat onslaught because the Romney campaign didn’t have the brass
to take a stand. Romney’s campaign needed to counter the Democratic dirt with some sort of
effort. Lacking that effort – like refusing to go on O’Reilly’s show for the full hour on Monday
night before Election Day 2012 which we heard directly from Bill at one of the O’Reilly/Miller
shows – Republican voters in a certain demographic stayed home. How could the pollsters know
that?
Here’s the most important part of my exercise: Get the word out to any LIV’s (low info
voter) you know who are just headline readers and to those others who do care but tell you
they want to vote Trump and are wavering. Ask if they’re wavering because they hear
from whatever sources they use that Trump is so far behind in the polls. People want to say
they voted for the winner. “Others say the winner will be” could be better than 50% of the
reason they vote a certain candidate. That way their odds of being able to say, after
11/8/2016, “I voted for the next President” go up.
Talk it up. Logically. With some backup info. Read my other posts.