As surely as the lush, green leaves of summer will soon turn to the colors of Autumn, the media will begin its election year scale-tipping to hide the dire mistakes made by their Left-wing darlings in preparation for November’s coming election.
Discouraging likely voters and donors by manipulated polling is a tried-and-true election tactic.
Over the next several weeks, expect to see reports that the price of gas is going down. That won’t last, of course. As soon as that First Tuesday in the 11th month concludes, temporary measures such as the dangerous step of releasing fuel from the Strategic Petroleum reserve and other short-lived actions will wear off. And of course, thanks to the Biden White House’s jihad against fossil fuels, the cost of home heating will be devastating this winter. But that’s after election day, so don’t expect to see much conversation on that point!
Despite disastrous inflation, foreign policy debacles, massive increases in crime, failing education, and a government that treats thse that dissents from its viewpoint as “domestic terrorists,” expect to see poll after poll proclaiming that Democrats have pulled ahead.
Inaccurate polling is far too commonplace. noted that “Most preelection polls in 2020 overstated Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump in the national vote for president, and in some states incorrectly indicated that Biden would likely win [in that state] or that the race would be close when it was not. These problems led some commentators to argue that ‘polling is irrevocably broken,’ that pollsters should be ignored, or that ‘the polling industry is a wreck, and should be blown up.’”
Objective, non-political sources have described how polling has portrayed inaccurate, non-existent strength for Democrat candidates. Scientific American reported that “In the weeks leading up to the November 2016 election, polls across the country predicted an easy sweep for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. From Vanuatu to Timbuktu, everyone knows what happened…they missed the mark in key swing states that tilted the Electoral College toward Trump.” The study also noted that there is “evidence that people are more likely to pick up the phone if they’re Democrats.”
A Guardian article concurs, citing the same research. “Political polls regarding US elections in 2020 overstated Democratic support “across the board”, US political scientists found, while understating support for Republicans and Donald Trump. The finding, which will alarm Democrats aiming to hold on to their narrow control of the US House and Senate in 2022, is contained in a new study by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Josh Clinton, a Vanderbilt University professor and AAPOR taskforce member, told the Washington Post: ‘There was a systematic error that was found in terms of the overstatement for Democratic support across the board.’”
Crime has surged under Democrat-supported left-wing District Attorneys have swept into office across the nation. A Fox analysis reports that “Violent crimes have reached unprecedented numbers in the last two years…” As election day draws closer, however, expect to see “get tough” comments from the same legislators, mayors and governors who presided over this dire problem and established the policies that allowed it to occur. That change in attitude will vanish as soon as the election is over.
And, of course, expect the phony scandal machine to be working overtime. From 2016 on, we heard Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff endlessly proclaim that the Trump Administration was engaged in “Russian collusion.” Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and endless hours of Congressional time were utilized to keep the nonsense charges in the public eye. All were found to be utterly false. The timing of the latest politically-manipulated raid in the final months before the 2022 election are more of the same.
Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy and Government
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