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Home Front: Politix
Polls Are Just More Media Propaganda
2018-08-29
Election season is upon us again, two years after one of the wildest roller-coaster political campaigns in recent memory. This time, it's Congress on the ballot, not Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. Yet President Trump is still on the ballot ‐ his agenda, his policies, his future.

If Democrats win the House, we can expect Trump's economic plans to be put on hold. Aside from the unlikely prospect of impeachment, Democrats will use every congressional committee under their control to investigate the president and his administration. Endless hearings, subpoenas, and media coverage will have the Trump administration spending every waking hour answering to Congress, leaving little time to make America great again.

...Then there are the opinion polls, a staple of any election cycle. Are the polls reflecting public opinion, or are they another tool of the media and their patrons in the Democratic Party to affect the outcome of an election? Are the media projecting, doing exactly what they accused Russia of doing: meddling in an election?

...Let's go back to 2016, when all but one poll predicted a Hillary Clinton victory. Here is a summary courtesy of Real Clear Politics.

...Remember that "more than 90 percent of D.C. journalists vote Democratic, with an even higher number giving to Democrats or liberal-leaning political action committees." These are the people commissioning the polls and interpreting the results for us. Take it all with a big grain of salt.

Remember too that even though Donald Trump is not on any ballot this coming November, his agenda is ‐ future judicial appointments, trade deals, tax cuts, curbing illegal immigration, and continuing to drain the corrupt Deep State swamp. Your vote could make the difference.

To the entire world. Europe is gone to the Muslims - it's only a matter of time before Western Europe becomes the Arsenal of Dar el Islam. China behaves more & more as pre WWI Germany - and they own the American ruling class, the ones that Trump's revolution targets, in fee simple.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#7  Polls that are pushed by the press are intended to influence opinion, not report it. They are bandwagon propaganda.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-08-29 21:48  

#6  No breakouts, no sale.
Posted by: charger   2018-08-29 19:12  

#5  The only poll I might trust would be one whose requirement for contributing is a correct answer to its first question "What state is Columbus, Ohio the capital of?"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-08-29 13:59  

#4  Polls...? In many ways they are more illustrative of what the Propagandists are interested in Lying About.
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-29 11:50  

#3  Polls become part of the narrative that is being presented to the potential voters. The only problem is that a candidate and party begins to believe its own bullshit.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-08-29 10:02  

#2  BFO
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-29 07:12  

#1  I may not have known how owned we were, but still... It has been a good snippet of what can be and what May be.
Posted by: newc   2018-08-29 04:15  

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