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In reply to the discussion: Prediction: The polls are significantly overestimating Trump [View all]reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)32. They were "online" polls, not ...
... Scientific polls based on random samples
From CNN:
President Donald Trump's former "fixer" Michael Cohen said Thursday that he paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls at "the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.
Cohen was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he paid John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, between $12,000 and $13,000 for activities related to Trump's campaign, including "trying unsuccessfully to manipulate two online polls in Mr. Trump's favor"...
...Gauger told the paper that Cohen asked him in early 2014 to help Trump score well in a CNBC online poll of business leaders and a 2015 Drudge Report poll of potential Republican candidates. Gauger's efforts for the CNBC poll were unsuccessful, according to the paper, and Trump ranked low in the Drudge Report poll.
Cohen was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he paid John Gauger, the owner of RedFinch Solutions LLC, between $12,000 and $13,000 for activities related to Trump's campaign, including "trying unsuccessfully to manipulate two online polls in Mr. Trump's favor"...
...Gauger told the paper that Cohen asked him in early 2014 to help Trump score well in a CNBC online poll of business leaders and a 2015 Drudge Report poll of potential Republican candidates. Gauger's efforts for the CNBC poll were unsuccessful, according to the paper, and Trump ranked low in the Drudge Report poll.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/michael-cohen-poll-rigging/index.html
These polls are "for entertainment only".
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The problem with overestimating is that it gives trump cover for saying it was rigged.
BComplex
Sep 2020
#57
Trump's gonna have to cheat so bigly that I can't envision how even he can get away with it
Blue Owl
Sep 2020
#5
OVERCONFIDENCE plays to the interests of foreign operatives seeking to interfere with our elections
bucolic_frolic
Sep 2020
#21
The polls were adjust to include more non-college voters, fewer college educated
Fiendish Thingy
Sep 2020
#31
These heathen traitors are just about to lose control of two branches of government for decades....
Hulk
Sep 2020
#45
it was always about the talk radio and nothing has changed there - democrats still ignore
certainot
Sep 2020
#47
i like the prediction by dr jack but dems always miss-estimate republican prospects because
certainot
Sep 2020
#56