We have seen (unsurprisingly) a major difference in support by "mode" of collection. Trump always does worse in live interviews (mid-high 40s) and DeSantis does the best (low-mid 30s).
It means DeSantis has now fallen into the 20s even among live interviews, and if the online and SMS were to even remain the same, he'd fall to about 15% or lower.
It's ugly, folks. Ugly.
Also important to explain those are just "raw" unweighted results we are importing from live interviews. Among those 157 interviews, this is their education, which is clearly very, VERY, educated for a GOP primary.
Interestingly, @VivekGRamaswamy is at 5% no matter the mode. He has surpassed @NikkiHaley and Tim Scott in all modes.
As Charlie Kirk observed, it's such a difference in the Republican electorate, the base movement. Incredible change because it's younger and less white.
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The DeSantis strategy 'he's the anti-lockdown champion' isn't working for a few reasons, the biggest being 1) voters aren't stupid and 2) it's not true.
Point being, politics are politics, and that's the nature of the game. But why are these angles not working for DeSantis AND, moreover, why are they dug in like ticks pretending nothing is wrong?
They attack everyone, and conduct ZERO introspection. It's rather pathetic.
For the lazy who reply to tweets without having the intellect or attention span to read the article outlining an argument in great detail, let's walk you through what you missed.
1. This is not 2016. The NeverTrump/Anti-Trump vote has never been a "majority". Meaning, the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Exactly right. This is a mental health issue and it's been known for decades how media play a contagion role. It used to be referred to as the "Columbine Effect". Sadly, the media-inspired events to follow are almost always more deadly.
Follman also has done great work on "How the Media Inspires Mass Shooters".
But unfortunately, as an industry, media care more about the anti-Second Amendment agenda than their own role in inspiring the mentally unstable to commit these acts. motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
Here's the @nypost doing an expose on how badly we polled in 2020. In the next thread, I'll include the link for another review via The Epoch Times re: 2016, who hired us to give them a Biden +4 even though we're garbage. nypost.com/article/the-re…
And here it is. It hurts to share this review of our 2016 record. Honestly, I cannot believe they hired us to do their national polling, which was final Biden +4, for 2020.
Wait, folks, wait... It's not fair to leave out that we also had a final poll for the Georgia runoff. Consider, it was December 11, 2020, so sorry, but it was the best we could do.
Here is the first Myth of Empire Cornyn invoked earlier today. It's of course the same myth used to muster support for the Iraq Invasion, arguably the biggest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history.
For those who aren't familiar with Snyder and have no idea what the Hell I'm talking about, he identifies recurrent "myths of empire" that lead to overextension, and ultimately, demise.
By the way, myth-believing societies, which we are in the U.S., are dangerous and reckless.