RED FINCH! The polls are rigged

[Iwasthere]

If he was rigging the polls then you know damn well he's rigging them now. Media = crickets. When he loses there'll be an outcry, "How could I have possibly lost, the polls had me ahead".

[RockRaven]

1. Beyond rhetoric to justify disputing the results, messing with poll results

has a second use -- it actually helps his actual results. People like being on a winning team, they don't like being losers. Especially the MAGAts who are MAGAts because they feel like losers or in danger of being losers.

[spanone]

2. K&R

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. That's a pretty broad brush accusation

The testimony was that he paid a Republican pollster to generate some favourable poll results- that doesn’t mean he has paid off each and every pollster (especially when the NYT will craft a deeply flawed, pro-Trump poll at no cost to Trump)

[brooklynite]

4. In which case, tell us what the actual margin is between Biden and Trump?

What was "rigged" was a popularity contest to make Trump happy. Not an election poll by a respected polling institute.

[maxrandb]

6. True, unless "respected polling institutes" are also

in the "make Donnie Dipshit happy" mode.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/special-election-2024-democrats-biden-rcna117916

Democrats are performing, on average, 11 points better than expected in special elections this year.

The latest two special elections came last week in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. In the Granite State, Democratic candidate Hal Rafter defeated Republican James Guzofski by 12 points (56% to 44%) to win a state House seat previously held by a Republican. The district voted about 6% more Republican than the country as a whole in the last two presidential elections, which means that Rafter overperformed the partisan baseline by 18 points. The win takes on extra significance because it puts Democrats on the verge of overturning GOP control of the New Hampshire House.

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania’s 21st House District, Democrat Lindsay Powell easily defeated Republican Erin Connelly Autenreith, helping secure Democrats’ one-vote majority in the state House. Powell was expected to win the district, which has a +17 Democratic advantage. But she won by 30 points — a 13-point overperformance.

These victories follow a notable trend. According to an analysis put together by ABC News, Democrats are performing, on average, 11 points better than expected in special elections this year. And it’s not just happening in blue states such as New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. We’re also seeing these types of outcomes in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Louisiana. If the 2023 special election results are any indication, Democratic voters are simply more energized than Republicans.

[mountain grammy]

8. There are polls

and then there are votes. Hooray for the voters, outpolling the polls. What is that strange feeling I'm getting? I think it's hope..

[WarGamer]

5. Online polls... like WABC or ABC Topeka or such things...

That's what was faked.

[thesquanderer]

7. Not only weren't any "real" polls rigged, this isn't even news, it was known in 2019.

(and the rigging of those sham polls wasn't even effective!)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/michael-cohen-poll-rigging/index.html

[oasis]

9. I figured the numbers were

out of whack. BIG TIME.

[BWdem4life]

10. What does "Red Finch" mean?

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