Biden approval rating:
Reuters 45%
Politico 44%
YouGov 45%
NPR 42%
CNBC 44%
Fox News 47%
Gallup 43%
IBD 44%
Quinnipiac 33%
Guess which one number from the above list the pundits are all hyping today, while ignoring all the other numbers on the list 🤪
Reuters 45%
Politico 44%
YouGov 45%
NPR 42%
CNBC 44%
Fox News 47%
Gallup 43%
IBD 44%
Quinnipiac 33%
Guess which one number from the above list the pundits are all hyping today, while ignoring all the other numbers on the list 🤪
Why is Quinnipiac off by so much? It’s usually the result of a flawed polling methodology. An outlier like this is embarrassing for a legit polling outlet, and they often revise their methodology going forward as a result. It’s an “oops.” But the media treats it as the only poll.
The Quinnipiac folks are likely banging their heads on their desks right now, wondering how they blew it, and searching for the flaw in their polling method so they can fix it before they do their next poll. Yet the media is like, hey, we can get headlines out of this number!
This is nothing new; the media spends basically every day of every election cycle dishonestly portaying what the polls say. It allows the media to manufacture headlines. Simple as that.
Media outlets will even go as far as only reporting a candidate’s worst poll number this week, and then only reporting that candidate’s best poll number the next week, so it can pretend there’s movement and speculate why – when in reality the polls haven’t even changed.
Once in a blue moon they’ll let Kornacki out of his basement so he can explain the polling averages and what they really mean. But tv viewers don’t generally want something that complicated. So then they just go back to only reporting the highest or lowest number for shock value.
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