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Dr. Jack

(675 posts)
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 10:39 AM Oct 2020

Fox News Poll: Biden +3

New Fox News Poll shows the race tightening significantly from Biden +9 to Biden +3 over the past two weeks. Now at Biden 47% and Trump 44%.




Shoot sorry, I got that wrong. That's from 2008. With a week to go before the election, Fox had a poll where Obama only had a 3 point lead over McCain down from his previous poll of +9. It almost seems like if we just cherry pick polls, we can find all sorts of crazy results. The exact same day, CBS had Obama +11. Pay attention to the averages and don't freak out over random, individual polls. You'll drive yourself insane and it will all be for nothing.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#polls

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Fox News Poll: Biden +3 (Original Post) Dr. Jack Oct 2020 OP
Dr. Jack you are so mean! ;) mucifer Oct 2020 #1
I do like to mess with people when they are being ridiculous Dr. Jack Oct 2020 #3
I see what you did there...almost fooled by your headline...nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author lagomorph777 Oct 2020 #4
LOL. What is interesting is Fox hasn't published a poll in about two weeks. Statistical Oct 2020 #5
Rather telling Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #8
You're bad! Dem2 Oct 2020 #6
Boooo! David__77 Oct 2020 #7
I remember being at Logan Airport the day before the election Eid Ma Clack Shaw Oct 2020 #9
Not nice Rice4VP Oct 2020 #10
Not cool man Johnny2X2X Oct 2020 #11
.... MoonRiver Oct 2020 #12
I hate you. Drunken Irishman Oct 2020 #13
Thanks you Le Roi de Pot Oct 2020 #14
You link is to an Obama poll. Demsrule86 Oct 2020 #15

Dr. Jack

(675 posts)
3. I do like to mess with people when they are being ridiculous
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 10:41 AM
Oct 2020

It might be a personality flaw but I think it gets the job done

Response to Dr. Jack (Original post)

Statistical

(19,264 posts)
5. LOL. What is interesting is Fox hasn't published a poll in about two weeks.
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 10:44 AM
Oct 2020

Fox Polling is good and they pride themselves on accuracy. The last poll was almost two weeks ago and showed Trump down 10. Fox usually does polls about once a week but hasn't published anything for almost weeks. I wonder if they have done it and know it is bad and thus won't publish it so the Orange One doesn't get the sads.

I mean what top rating polling company is NOT polling the Presidential Election right now? Almost every pollster is ramping up the rate of polling and just crickets from Fox.

Eid Ma Clack Shaw

(490 posts)
9. I remember being at Logan Airport the day before the election
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 10:48 AM
Oct 2020

and seeing a newspaper front page with something like “MCCAIN COMEBACK?” and a solitary tight poll as the basis for that.

Here’s my prediction for what happens this time: it “tightens” to Biden +8ish over the next couple of weeks and a single poll on election-eve shows Trump ahead or behind by 1 and it gets treated as the one poll to rule them all. Then, Biden wins comfortably and the conman fucks off. THE END.

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