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Pollsters and election modelers
suffered an industry-shattering embarrassment at the hands of Donald Trump on Tuesday
night.
Trump, the Republican
presidential nominee, had long said the polls were biased against him. His
claims — dismissed and mocked by the experts — turned out to be true.
“It’s going to put the polling
industry out of business,” said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. “It’s going to put the
voter projection industry out of business.”
This
is rich. Tapper is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the polling industry got
it wrong, so embarrassingly wrong. Tapper knows full well that CNN has been in
collusion with the polling industry that DELIBERATELY manipulated the numbers.
Sundance has been tracking this racket for years, and today he summarized his
research during the 2015-16 election cycle:
THE MEDIA DIDN’T GET IT WRONG –
The pollsters did not work from the wrong data set; the media pollsters,
consultants and professional political class did not work from the wrong
assumptions, or use the incorrect baselines….. THEY LIED.
The professional media polling
agents knew exactly what the truth was. They lied and manipulated their
data in a concerted effort to intentionally falsify reality. There should be no
doubt, EVER, in the mind of any political observer as to what took place within
the expressed and broadcast polling which fueled over two years of broadcast
news. The media intentionally lied.
They knew the truth. The same
tools available to us, and to those who were ridiculed for truth-telling, were
available to them and many more. They did not get it wrong. They chose to lie
to you the American electorate. So let’s name the liars so their names can
forever be dispatched from the land where credibility is of value:
- Fox News, pollster Daron Shaw, Shaw Research and associates and the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch.
- NBC News, pollster Mark Murray, Hart Research and Associates.
- Monmouth University, pollster Patrick Murray.
- CBS News and New York Times writ large.
- ABC News and The Washington Post.
- CNN News Network and ORC Polling.
- Rasmussen and Reuters Polling Operations.
These individuals along with
every single corporate national media polling outlet, which in turn contributed
to -and skewed- the larger aggregate of the Real Clear Politics average of
polls, were complicit in their intent to deceive the American electorate in an
ideological scheme to manipulate the psyche of the American voter.
. . .
They did not make mistakes;
they did not operate from the wrong assumptions. These organizations, as
part of the larger corporate objectives from those who fund their endeavors,
lied. Allowing them to say they made a mistake is only dooming ourselves to the
continued cycle of battered electorate syndrome.
. . .
There’s
more at his blog post. And for icing on the cake, Sundance reproduces tweets
and headlines from polling guru Nate Silver on Trump's candidacy. Go here and scroll down to see the composite of Silver’s propaganda. (If you want to get into the weeds to see HOW they lie, here's an earlier blog by Sundance with a detailed analysis.)
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