Let the Unskewing Begin!
Via RawStory: ‘Polling can be skewed’: Four Trump surrogates go on CNN for mass denial of Trump’s lousy polls.
Many apparently did not learn the lessons of 2012.
Via RawStory: ‘Polling can be skewed’: Four Trump surrogates go on CNN for mass denial of Trump’s lousy polls.
Many apparently did not learn the lessons of 2012.
These Un-skewed™ believers are between a rock and a douche nozzle.
A completely incompetent businessman in Trump, who has a track record of being a failure, and someone who has no honor, and can not be taken at his word over almost anything.
Who is lying with every sentence he says, but is telling this Un-Skewed™ group exactly what they want to hear. That is as far as his qualifications will go. Trump knows how to sell a pile of sh!t stuffed in an old, holey, sock to willing, gullible people.
Republicans have shown you can make more money fleecing a group of people. Trump is just the next big name in this business. I feel smidgen bad it is same group of gullible rubes ALL the time.
Oh, and the rock. That is the world which is passing the Un-Skewers™ by every day.
I was half hoping that one of them would be Dean Chambers (the original unskewed polls guy) for extra irony.
It’s not enough that they pass laws to try to make it harder for certain groups of people to vote, now they tell us that reality is not real when it comes to polls…I wonder how much more delusion they will be capable of now that their voter base is shrinking…
“Polling can be skewed.” Mitch Romney, 45th President USA.
The “smartest” among them have already decided that the polls are meaningless liberal crap:
@M. Bouffant:
The campaign for president this year has been take over by the largest troll this side of the internet. Obviously, trolls on the internet are going to flock to his orange glow faster than a person joins two sub-reddits both hating on Clinton.
If we are basing popularity on the amount of people who are members of certain sub-reddits. Boobs should be POTUS and VPOTUS. But, populist ideas and all…
Boobs 2016!
Boobs a Lot
The Fugs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgKoruWdA
This despite the verifiable fact that good aggregation of the polls can correctly predict the results of election contests about 98% of the time.
Of course when the polls are proven accurate once again, and Clinton prevails with a great majority of both the popular and electoral vote, it will be blamed on election “rigging” and the mainstreamliberalmedia somehow hypnotizing large swaths of the electorate to vote Democrat.
Trump’s supporters are simply allergic to reality.
@M. Bouffant:
It’s almost sad, really. They think Twitter followers = voters?
I guess we’d all better hope Katy Perry doesn’t run for office. 91 million followers. Nine times what Trump has. Hell, Bieber has 86 million. And Obama? 76 million. (Of course those are all Kenyans.)
Trump is the 168th biggest account on Twitter, just behind Aziz Ansari and a hair ahead of Sherinna Sinna, who apparently is a musician who is also into comics.
Yep. He’s also slightly ahead of Victoria Beckham but trails his soul brother from another mother, Charlie Sheen.
President of the United States and keeper of 4,500 nuclear weapons, ladies and gentlemen. Bound for victory because he’s got more followers than Aziz Ansari.
@michael reynolds:
Michael,
What is even more interesting than the stats, was the article’s comments:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/evidence-trump-landslide/
The echo chamber is strong with these trumpkins. All I could say to myself while reading was “…wow! “.
On the other hand, there are some in the GOP that realize that this candidate was the biggest mistake that the party could have made:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-wilson-beat-trump-drum-article-1.2739979
His point: If we’re going to have a defeat, then let it be massive. Then the party can have an ideological purge of all the old thinking that the trumpkins represent and move on to being the party that the GOP intended to be.
@M. Bouffant: That may be the most impressive example of self-delusion “analysis” I have ever seen.
I almost coughed up my grapefruit juice when I read that rawstory “analysis.”
All I can say is, it’s no wonder Trump and his surrogates are already pre-emptively claiming that the election is going to be stolen from them. They have to, because although they probably do not believe that twitter followers and twitter activity correlates strongly to likely voters, they really do need to sell this notion to the ‘mainstream media’ to see if it gets them a “Trump Campaign Has Momentum Now!” narrative going.
Speaking of Trump, I came across this and the analysis seems so spot on, especially for anyone who doesn’t want to take any responsibility for the rise of this joke of a presidential candidate…
@Liberal Capitalist: You can’t have an ideological purge without a counter ideology on which to base it. Exactly who is going to provide the counter ideology to the Objectivist/Conservative mess that provides what is passing for ideology in the current GOP?
The difference between the GOP now and the Dems (viz a viz the left) in the 60’s is that there were credible voices for moderation in the 60s Dems. Who are those voices on the right? I’m not hearing them.
@M. Bouffant: Jesus Tap Dancing Christ. Maybe they should ask Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders how to turn Facebook likes and retweets into votes.
@Facebones:
The commentators there have that covered:
@Scott F: This is right up there with Pauline Kael’s “I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.” I can’t imagine why they see no Hillary support on Jim “The Stupidest Man on the Internet” Hoft’s site.
@M. Bouffant: Ask any entrepreneur if Twitter “likes” translate into Moar Bizness and he will howl with laughter until his eyeballs fall out.
A lot of the Romney poll skewing nonsense revolved around turnout models. This is an altogether weird year. I wouldn’t rust anybody’s turnout model. Looks good for H, but I won’t feel comfortable ’til Wednesday Nov 9.
“Many apparently did not learn the lessons of 2012.”
They did – that those who were full of sh*t still had jobs.
LA Times poll Friday has Clinton up +1. Reuters poll Thursday had her up +5. Bloomberg poll Wednesday had her up +6. Considering the Brexit polling had “Remain” ahead for almost the entire way, usually comfortable, no one should be counting chickens just yet.
Of course, being behind by 6 points less than three months before an election is pretty terrible, but the media would usually be bending over backward to pretend the race was much closer than it really is.
Mike