Right-wing relies on Twitter poll to claim Hispanics thought Trump won the debate
After Tuesday’s nightmare presidential debate, the first of three, pollsters rushed to gauge how the public reacted to the performances of President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which is no easy task. Creating accurate polls is an exacting science that requires carefully crafting questions so as not to influence the outcome, selecting a representative and randomized audience, and certifying results.
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It might not be accurate or representative, it might be impossible to know who voted, but on the bright side, it can be ready in mere minutes. It’s sort of like cooking a steak in the microwave.
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After a majority voted that Trump won the debate in the extremely unscientific poll, right-leaning media jumped on it. Headline after headline boasted about a Telemundo poll finding that a majority of Spanish-speakers thought Trump won. Some claimed, without evidence, that those polled were Americans (Twitter is available worldwide) or Telemundo viewers, which is impossible to know. It’s also impossible to know if those who responded to the poll spoke Spanish, as translation is available on Twitter and doesn’t exactly take fluency in Spanish to know that a tweet that includes #PresidentialDebate and has the candidates’ names as the options is asking who won the debate.
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