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Polling Bias Embarrassed Mainstream Media, Gave False Hope to Clinton Supporters

<p>Take a look through recent headlines and polls and it seemed like Donald Trump had a slim chance of winning the presidency&period;&nbsp&semi;Nearly all major polls showed Hillary Clinton in the lead&comma; and I can&rsquo&semi;t help but wonder if some Democrats felt like they didn&rsquo&semi;t need to vote because their candidate was a shoo-in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Margins and predictions were varied&comma; but let&rsquo&semi;s face it&colon; <em>most of us believed Hillary Clinton would become the next US President&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is this incompetence&quest; Self delusion&quest; We have covered the fact that the mainstream media has a strong liberal bias&period; But in this case the entire world was misled into counting on Hillary Clinton as the victor&period; I suspect Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s supports suffered the most because of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dems are calling Trump&rsquo&semi;s victory a &ldquo&semi;surprise&rdquo&semi; and an &ldquo&semi;upset&comma;&rdquo&semi; but some of this opinion may be due to the fact that our polls simply aren&rsquo&semi;t trustworthy&period;&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;hacker-group-anonymous-nbc-polls-are-fake" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>As I wrote in October<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; a recent Anonymous video explained why some polls are downright fake&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&rsquo&semi;s take a look at which states got it right and which states succumbed to liberal bias&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&period; In Florida they got it right&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When voter fraud was discovered nearly a week before election day&comma; we knew the Dems were working hard to secure a Clinton victory in the Sunshine State&period; Polls were on point&comma; showing Trump and Hillary neck-in-neck &lpar;RCP average 46&period;6 vs 46&period;4&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump claimed a narrow victory in Florida with 49&percnt; to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s 48&percnt;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&period; In Ohio they underestimated Trump&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump was widely projected to win the Buckeye State&comma; and major polls had the billionaire leading by as much as 7 points&period; But the aggregate was only about 3 points&period; Since the final was almost 9 points&comma; definitely a bias there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump won Ohio with 52&percnt; to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s 44&percnt;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>3&period; In North Carolina they got it wrong&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The RCP average showed Hillary and Trump all tied up&comma; but <em>Huffington Post<&sol;em> claimed Hillary was in the lead by 1&period;6 percent&period; <em>CBS News<&sol;em> showed her in the lead by as many as 4 points&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donald Trump won North Carolina by nearly 4 points&comma; with 51&percnt; to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s 47&percnt;&period; The margin of error for these polls was only 3-4&percnt;&comma; so the pollsters were either biased or incompetent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>4&period; In Pennsylvania they got it wrong<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The race was tight in Pennsylvania&comma; with Trump winning by a mere 1&percnt; &lpar;49&percnt; to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s 48&percnt;&rpar;&period;&nbsp&semi;The Keystone State was expected to go to Hillary&comma; with the RCP average putting Clinton in the lead by 2&plus; points&period;&nbsp&semi;Other major polls had Hillary in the lead by as many as 4 points&period; &nbsp&semi;Only the Trafalgar Group poll got it right&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Feel free to check the rest of the states&comma; yourself&comma; but these were the huge swings states that each candidate needed to win&period; Because of these polls&comma; the major networks all expected Hillary to come out on top&period; In fact they ignored the poll in Florida that gave Trump the edge and assumed Hillary would win there as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>The Aftermath&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dems are now scrambling to discover &ldquo&semi;what went wrong&rdquo&semi; and <em>Huffington Post<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;insists that America must address what it refers to as &ldquo&semi;the systemic poll failures at the state level&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Of course&comma; all of these individual polling misses mean that HuffPost Pollster&rsquo&semi;s forecasts for both the Senate and the presidency were wrong&period; It&rsquo&semi;s that simple &ndash&semi; the forecasts relied on the polls&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>Huffington Post&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em>&ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s not just ours&comma; though&period; Most forecast models had Clinton up and Democrats with a good chance of winning the Senate&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dems are also claiming that Trump had a large &ldquo&semi;silent&rdquo&semi; following that kept quiet but turned up to vote on election day&period; I find this hard to believe&period;&nbsp&semi;What is far more likely is that the polls were slanted hard to the Left &ndash&semi; and now the Dems are realizing that manipulating the numbers wasn&rsquo&semi;t enough to get Crooked Hillary into the White House&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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