Pundits and Pollsters Can Wish, Can’t They?

Pundits and Pollsters Can Wish, Can’t They?

Pollsters

Now that all of the mainstream media has practically declared that Hillary Clinton has already won the 2016 Presidential election, Americans will have to take this with all of the same degree of seriousness that our British counterparts took when that country’s mainstream media had declared that the British will vote to remain part of the European Union.

These same pundits would have us believe, as stated in the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, that Hillary Clinton has opened up a 12-point lead over Donald Trump, and that Barack Obama is enjoying a 56% job approval rating.

Ahem…not so fast, folks.

What the pundits have conveniently not disclosed about this poll, conducted by Langer Research Associates, is that the sampling ratio used in the poll favored Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin over Republicans. In other words, for every Republican polled, two Democrats were polled. Based on that reality, it is little wonder that Clinton would be leading Trump in that particular poll, and that in the same poll, Obama’s job approval ratings are right up there with Ronald Reagan’s, in June of 1988.

In other words, the poll that is being talked about all over the mainstream media has about as much credibility as the content of rose petals in a dump truck load of horse manure.

More credible polling, conducted in battleground states, indicate that Clinton and Trump are virtually tied- within the margin of error, and it is those states that the election will teeter, and ultimately decide who will succeed Barack Obama in January.

This is what the media does. They spin the truth to suit a narrative which supports a pre-determined outcome that is completely divorced from reality. It happened in Great Britain when the final “leave/remain” poll got the percentages “bass-ackwards,” and the same thing has happened in this country, based upon the polls that would have us believe that Donald Trump has already and irretrievably lost the race.

Notice that the news cycles are filled with the poppycock that there is a movement within the Republican Party to release the Republican delegates from their commitment to vote for Trump on the first ballot- a commitment based upon actual primary and caucus voting that gave Trump an undeniable nomination win. This is merely the wet dream of mainstream, elitist Republicans who are miffed that the GOP is on the verge of nominating someone outside their micro-managerial control…the familiar types like Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and the members of the Bush family, one of whom barely registered in this year’s nominating contests.

Add that to the news that the so-called Republican pompous ass-in-chief, also known as columnist George Will, has left the Republican Party because of the presumptive nominee, and it would seem that “the Donald” is headed for an electoral defeat in all fifty states. It should be remembered that George Will routinely assailed Ronald Reagan during his presidency and it was only after “the Gipper” passed away that Will started singing his praises.

So, while Democrats and their nominee, Hillary Clinton, the entire mainstream media who work at their behest, and the “Republi-can’ts” who have trouble building up enough testosterone to oppose the President on practically anything, for fear of offending their own opposition, can all be united in celebrating Hillary Clinton’s ascendancy to the nation’s highest office, the only thing that stands in their way is… the will of the people.

Until then, November 8th, we look forward to all of the stories of how Trump cannot possibly win, and we look forward to November 9th, when the mainstream media assails Americans for being racist, xenophobic and intolerant (just as they have in Great Britain) because of all of the eggs on the faces of those who could not see the forest, for the sake of all of the trees standing in their way.

 

-Drew Nickell, 27 June 2016

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