A BS poll. More to come.

Created
Sun, 24/09/2023 - 23:00
Updated
Sun, 24/09/2023 - 23:00
It’s not even Thanksgiving before 2024 Bill Scher on formerly Twitter calls the Washington Post-ABC News poll “obviously ridiculous.“ How ridiculous? This ridiculous: Among voters under age 35, Trump leads Biden in the new Post-ABC poll by 20 points. Some other recent public polls show Biden winning this group by between six and 18 points. In 2020, Biden won voters under age 35 by double digits. Among non-White voters, the poll findsBiden leads by nine points. In four other public polls, Biden’s lead among non-White voters ranges from 12 points to 24 points. Higher up in the story (emphasis mine): The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier. Jeff Jarvis of CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism has some Mastodon words for the Washington Post and its front-page headline about Joe Biden. “The Washington Post cannot see that this is not a poll about Biden but instead a poll about journalism and its failures to inform the public. Polls are their self-fulfilling prophesies. They are damaging to public discourse.” Ya think? But, hell, the paper paid for the poll and, shitty or not, we’re…