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spooky3

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2. I almost can't bear listening to NPR anymore. In the last two weeks,

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:17 PM

Oct 2020

They presented stories on (a) suburban female voters near Detroit, and (b) Latinx voters in Arizona. In both cases they spent more time talking with Trump voters than others. Only at the end of the story, did they present polling data showing vast majorities of each group’s favoring Biden-Harris. Anecdotes are not good data...

On edit—an example of polling data showing wide margins favoring Democrats:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/14/michigan-swing-states-428896

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Per NPR this morning.... [View all] Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 OP

NPR has been infected by Koch Brothers Money. It shows. kairos12 Oct 2020 #1

I almost can't bear listening to NPR anymore. In the last two weeks, spooky3 Oct 2020 #2

I enjoy their local Chicago programming better than their national news. mucifer Oct 2020 #3

Agreed. I'm quite fond of WBEZ. As for NPR, they could've used Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2020 #4

Nice, Polite, Republicans nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #5