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USAFRetired_Liberal

(4,167 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 09:45 AM Dec 2022

Trafalagar Georgia runoff poll

https://mobile.twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1600107102974140416

Warnock 51 - Walker 47

If you know anything about this polling company, they put out tons of polls favoring the Republican candidates….they were completely awful this year and lucked up in 2016….I bet most of their polls are fake and they don’t put any statistical rigor in them….but I find it funny that they put out this poll the day of the election; I still think they were fake and probably took the aggregate of the other polls just to save face and to say they predicted this race correctly.
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Trafalagar Georgia runoff poll (Original Post) USAFRetired_Liberal Dec 2022 OP
GQP flooded the polls favoring Rs......... Lovie777 Dec 2022 #1
This is the first time I was polled... Phentex Dec 2022 #2
Maybe they will realize that their election poll rigging is backfiring on them Walleye Dec 2022 #3
Trafalger believes that non-college, white men are Deminpenn Dec 2022 #4
Rasmussen has been doing this for years. Bleacher Creature Dec 2022 #5

Lovie777

(12,237 posts)
1. GQP flooded the polls favoring Rs.........
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 09:54 AM
Dec 2022

in 2022 and corporate media ate them up claiming the flavor was very good. The onslaught against the Democrats were extreme and brutal but in that scenario the Democrats overall won and embarrassed the Rs.

And therefore, F the polling system.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
2. This is the first time I was polled...
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 10:01 AM
Dec 2022

I always wondered who they were polling before. I had at least a dozen polls this time.

I get so much spam on my cell I figured what the hell. I answered every one! I also got messages from both parties asking for support. I was not kind to the Walker texts.

I was thoroughly grilled on whether I was a veteran or not. One of those was more of a survey but also asked about who I was supporting.

Deminpenn

(15,278 posts)
4. Trafalger believes that non-college, white men are
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 10:07 AM
Dec 2022

consistently undersampled in polls. Statistically, these voters run the gamut from conservative to RW. Because Trafalger thinks these voters are undersampled and/or that demographic is underweighted in polls, they correct for that perceived problem. It makes their polls much more favorable to Rs and usually outliers.

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)
5. Rasmussen has been doing this for years.
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 10:17 AM
Dec 2022

Flood the zone with garbage polls favoring Republicans for 99% of the year, but then dropping a real poll at the very end so that they could claim to have been accurate.

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