.#Electionnight showed why Trump voters don't trust the media nypost.com/2020/11/04/ele… via @nypost
“Today we are all cynics or damn well should be. Show me an American who trusts politicians, polls, news organizations and social media bigs who fancy themselves our new masters and I’ll show you a fool.
The wall-to-wall promises of a blue wave were delivered with all the certainty of prophecy. Joe Biden and Democrats would sweep the White House and all of congress from sea to shining sea. Even a large voter survey that Fox News did with the Associated Press suggested as much.
Some 24 hours after the polls closed, President Trump still has a fighting chance to get 270 electoral votes, the GOP is holding on to a slim majority in the Senate and actually gained 5 House seats, narrowing the Dems majority to 12 seats.
We all make mistakes, and most of us try to avoid them. The problem with the unholy news-polling-social media-industrial complex is that the mistakes are so numerous and predictable that they begin to feel intentional.
Last Sunday, Quinnipiac had Biden winning the general election by 11 points and CNBC predicted he would win by 10, as did NBC and the Wall Street Journal. The results, as of Wednesday evening, showed Biden ahead by two percentage points, 50-48.
State polls were almost as bad.
State polls were almost as bad.
Emerson had Biden winning Florida by six points and the New York Times/Siena had him winning by three. The result: Trump won by 3.4 points.
One sneaky suspicion is that biased news organizations, including the Times, use their polls to reinforce their agenda.
One sneaky suspicion is that biased news organizations, including the Times, use their polls to reinforce their agenda.
The paper hates Trump and its polls generally undercount his support. Coincidence?
Some on the right see crooked polls as a form of voter suppression. The claim is that making Trump look like a sure loser aimed to discourage supporters from voting.
Some on the right see crooked polls as a form of voter suppression. The claim is that making Trump look like a sure loser aimed to discourage supporters from voting.
The usual response from pollsters is that “shy” Trump voters don’t engage with them or, if they do, don’t tell the truth because they are afraid of ostracism or violence. Thus, the pollsters blame Trump supporters for their own products being inaccurate.
That’s been a constant feature of the Trump years. Everything is his fault, even the misconduct of his enemies, er, opponents.
As usual, they have the blame game backwards. Trump voters, with good reason, didn’t trust elite corporations long before he ran in 2016. They were society’s forgotten people and didn’t see Wall Street or any other exclusive coastal institution caring about them.
Only when they found their fighter in Trump was it obvious their mistrust was well placed.
The Washington Post, CNN, broadcast networks and others on the far left demonized the president for 5 years, falsely accused him of colluding with Russia and encouraged his impeachment.
The Washington Post, CNN, broadcast networks and others on the far left demonized the president for 5 years, falsely accused him of colluding with Russia and encouraged his impeachment.
Their coverage of his supporters ranges from shock to contempt, as if their backing of the president makes them idiots unfit for America. Which, of course, is exactly why Trump was elected in the first place and got more than 68 million votes Tuesday, or 5 million more than 2016.
Whatever the final score of the Electoral College, it’s already a given that the 2020 campaign has deepened the chasms tearing our country apart.
In that sense, the future is spoken for.”
In that sense, the future is spoken for.”
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