(Flashback) Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race (Because he was?)

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-06 20:47:37 | Updated at 2024-11-06 22:39:55 2 hours ago

(Flashback) Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race (Because he was?)
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 31, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET | Ken Bensinger and Kaleigh Rogers

Posted on 11/06/2024 12:35:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Skewed polls and anonymous betting markets are building up Republicans’ expectations. Donald Trump could use that to challenge the result.

The torrent of polls began arriving just a few weeks ago, one after the other, most showing a victory for Donald J. Trump.

They stood out amid the hundreds of others indicating a dead heat in the presidential election. But they had something in common: They were commissioned by right-leaning groups with a vested interest in promoting Republican strength.

These surveys have had marginal, if any, impact on polling averages, which either do not include the partisan polls or give them little weight. Yet some argue that the real purpose of partisan polls, along with other expectation-setting metrics such as political betting markets, is directed at a different goal entirely: building a narrative of unstoppable momentum for Mr. Trump. The partisan polls appear focused on lifting Republican enthusiasm before the election and — perhaps more important — cementing the idea that the only way Mr. Trump can lose to Vice President Kamala Harris is if the election is rigged. Polls promising a Republican victory, the theory runs, could be held up as evidence of cheating if that victory does not come to pass.

“Republicans are clearly strategically putting polling into the information environment to try to create perceptions that Trump is stronger,” said Joshua Dyck, who directs the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. “Their incentive is not necessarily to get the answer right.”

Last week, the right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong shared a survey with his 1.1 million followers on X. The forecast from a new polling company suggested, without sharing its methodology, that the former president would take 74.3 percent of the national vote — a landslide unprecedented in American history.

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Any day the New York Slimes has to eat its own words is a good day.

Schadenfreude is a dish best served cold.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t worry tabloid NYT, Trump won’t challenge the results.

2 posted on 11/06/2024 12:36:36 PM PST by Eli Kopter

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I knew two weeks ago when AZ/NC/NV/FL numbers started coming in for early voting. You can’t have that kind of activity among low-propensities coming out early in the R party and not have it translate to strong showout.

3 posted on 11/06/2024 12:38:44 PM PST by struggle

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mitchell ( forget first name) just on RAV stream counting coup for best polling, states swing states moved less toward Republicams (1%) than the rest of the country ( Red more red, blue less blue) by 8% ( I think)

4 posted on 11/06/2024 12:39:12 PM PST by sopo

To: sopo

Mitchell head pollster for Rasmussen

5 posted on 11/06/2024 12:40:00 PM PST by sopo

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Only after living in a communist country for a couple years and being subjected to their media - did I finally understand how to really “read” the NY Times or Washington Post.

Its literally ALL narrative. They present the presently acceptable political belief of their masters/controllers

And if NY Times turns out to be absolutely wrong, it does not matter. Tomorrow will have a new political narrative and what was said last month or last year is gone into the memory hole

Orwell described it very well

6 posted on 11/06/2024 12:40:27 PM PST by PGR88

To: E. Pluribus Unum

No need to challenge.It was,as DJT hoped,too big to rig!

7 posted on 11/06/2024 12:42:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

This guy spent a lot of time reading the New York Times

8 posted on 11/06/2024 12:42:28 PM PST by MNDude

To: Eli Kopter

Dragging Liz Cheney around was a huge mistake.Kamala and Tim give off a weak vibe so parading around with a known warmonger. Is terrifying for military families. And we all know she has no foreign policy chops.

9 posted on 11/06/2024 12:44:53 PM PST by cnsmom

To: E. Pluribus Unum

... at the moment DJT is ahead of KH with 2.5% of the popular vote. Doesn’t strike me as a landslide win. Demographics determine destiny.

10 posted on 11/06/2024 12:46:30 PM PST by MacNaughton

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I said it 2 weeks before the election:

Pollsters will NEVER show a republican leading by a wide margin in a Presidential election. Those goes doubly true for Trump.

They ALL know that they will never get their poll results published if they have results that is likely to demoralize democrat voters before the actual election.

11 posted on 11/06/2024 12:46:58 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)

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