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In reply to the discussion: Detroit Free Press Poll: Trump +7 in Michigan [View all]JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)it reads like it was written by the group trying to push Biden out.
Have no idea who Bernie Porn is, but with a fairly sizable undecided group, 4% MOE, a press pushing constant negative coverage of Biden for 3+ weeks, editorializing that Biden should drop out, while essentially ignoring trump, I would want to see what other pollsters come up with to see if they have similar results, and after it has been Biden/Harris are back on the campaign trail.
According to the article the people surveyed are against EVs, don't care much about environmental concerns, inflation and immigration are its biggest concerns, and abortion only ranks as 12%, etc. In other words all the ISSUES that Democrats are running on the people polled don't care too much about, and I didn't even see anything about healthcare cited. That alone makes me question the accuracy of the sampling in this poll.
For those who are still arguing that this poll demonstrates that Biden should step aside, based on the concerns expressed in this poll, replacing President Biden would have very little effect on this polls numbers based on the concerns of the people polled. So if people are using this poll as an argument to replace Biden, it doesn't cut it, because the issues on any Democratic candidate that would replace Biden wouldn't change, and this poll indicates that those people polled don't care about the issues Democrats are advocating.
I want to see if this is an outlier and what other pollsters come up with AFTER Biden/Harris are back on the campaign trial, and start talking about the actual issues, which the lazy media won't do.
The article also doesn't give raw numbers how many Democrats, republicans, and independents were actually surveyed, they only give percentages, and they indicate the women surveyed split 50-50 for and against Biden, with an astounding 22% voting third party.
Unless there are more well known pollsters that confirm this poll, I don't buy it. My gut tells me this poll has a republican bias built into it, which is why I want to see what other pollsters come up with, AFTER Biden is back on the campaign trail.