So the media was taken in by all the RCP rightwing polls

[senseandsensibility]

and screamed about a red wave for weeks because of that. All of those polls have proven to be B.S. Ari just did a scathing report on both Real Clear Politics and the idiot talking heads who just repeated the lies. He showed clips of all kinds of CNN journalists happily serving as mouthpiece for RCP.

Has CNN covered this or are they just pretending it didn't happen? I think I know the answer, but since I stopped watching I can't be sure.

[tishaLA]

1. RCP ruined its brand if anyone's paying attention

they've always tried to appear unbiased, but that mask had already slipped significantly. This should relegate them to the trash heap of bad data, but our media treats even bad polls like catnip.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Exactly.

I was glad to hear Ari single them out by name. I wish more would.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. I knew RCP as an "opinion" or "news" site was already ruined after...

...its shenanigans with John Solomon (go read about that, if you need to); however, I assumed their polling aggregate was pretty fair. Sort of like how WSJ's opinion page is certainly slanted towards conservatives, but their straight news is usually pretty trustworthy.

But no more.

I will no longer use RCP as a definitive source for polling and poll aggregates. I think this election proved that even their polling aggregation is just as biased as their news and opinion sections.

So long, RCP!

[tishaLA]

7. wasn't Solomon The Hill? nt

[W_HAMILTON]

10. I believe that was where they were originally picking his stories up from, yes.

However, even after all his scandals came out and more reputable websites dropped him, RCP continued to push his propaganda stories. I marked it off as them just posting all sorts of silly shit since they just sort of seem to be a """news""" aggregator of some sort as well, so I just stopped paying attention to the """news""" stories that they were pushing and just used them as (what I mistakenly thought) was a trusted poll aggregator.

But, like I said, no more.

[Celerity]

16. here are all the Solomon RCP articles, 1 from 2011, then a shedload starting in 2017 to the present

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/john_solomon/

[W_HAMILTON]

17. Wait, those assholes are STILL carrying his crap?

Unbelievable.

Yeah, I should have seen the writing on the wall well before now. Oh well. Lesson learned.

[uponit7771]

5. +1,

[Deminpenn]

13. Maybe that will mean less of A B Stoddard

on Nicolle Wallace's show. She was always cast as some sort of neutral analyst despite being an R and regualr on RCP.

[gab13by13]

3. Ari was probably one of the pundits

calling for a red wave.

I have been criticized here for reporting that most polls were rigged. Then the rigged polls skewered the results of the poll of polls.

Polls are used for propaganda and then pundits read from teleprompters what their right wing domestic oligarchs tell them to read.

People believe a fence is a wall because pundits keep repeating it.

[Doc Sportello]

6. Brian Stelter would have talked about CNN's coverage of the polls

But Licht got rid of him as the first order of business. He was an honest media critic and the fact he was fired first says a lot. Don't expect those on CNN to bring it up.

[Efilroft Sul]

8. The media were willing accomplices.

The owners loved the partisan polls being added to the aggregate to give them the midterm horse race and sweet, sweet ad revenues they so desperately craved. Additionally, they and their high-paid, bobble-headed anchors hoped their Republican friends and allies sweeping into office would reward them with another round of hefty tax breaks.

They weren't taken in; they were in on the take.

[W_HAMILTON]

9. A visual of their propaganda polling:

Taken from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-2022-midterm-polls-performed-in-senate-races-11668037633

[Etherealoc1]

11. This is nothing new.

Every election for ratings, they
use outlandish polls to create a
narrative of a horse.

It's not going to ch

[maxrandb]

12. Well, only if "taken in" is defined as "colluded"

[Deminpenn]

14. Found it amusing that Ari couldn't find any clips

of MSNBC hosts, pundits or guests echoing the "red wave" nonsense. Since I watch MSNBC and live in Pennsylvania, I know there were.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. 538 was front and center in that too

For example here in PA for Josh Shapiro -





ACTUALS (from PA state elections site as of 3:36 pm EST 11/10/22)



The fact that Trafalgar Group poll was even included was ludicrous.

[Sky Jewels]

18. Complicit. I'm sure many of them know how to read the fine print on polls.

Many knew their assumptions about likely voters were largely horseshit. But it helped push the "Dems are doomed!" narrative their corporate overlords wanted.