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Monday, October 14, 2019

The Problems With Fox News’ Bogus Impeachment Poll

Scott Morefield Oct 14, 2019

Trump supporters should brace themselves for a LOT of disappointing polls between now and election day. As we know from 2016, however, disappointing polls don’t necessarily mean sure defeat, but that doesn’t stop the media and others from using them to push their anti-Trump narrative.............

“Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office,” read the Fox News lede from Wednesday. The 51 percent signified a shocking 9 percent jump from when the ‘I’ question was last posed in July.

Let that sink in. If this poll is correct, a majority of this country wants to see Trump removed from office for the ‘high crime and misdemeanor’ (apparently) of asking Ukraine to investigate (not fabricate, but investigate) possible crimes............ Something had to be amiss..........

In fact, 48 percent, or nearly half, of the Fox News poll’s 1,003 respondents self identified as Democrats. Republicans came in at 40 percent, an eight percent decrease, with the other 12 percent being Independents........... According to Gallop’s last analysis, 31 percent of Americans identify as Democrats, 29 percent as Republicans, and the rest - a whopping 38 percent - actually identify as Independents. So the question to Fox News on their latest polling data isn’t merely why fewer Republicans were polled than Democrats, but also why were Independents almost criminally underrepresented?............It’s almost as if this poll and others like it are meant to create, not measure, public opinion..........To Read More.....

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