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Todd79

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56. The Exit Polls This Year Are Not Reliable

Fri Nov 6, 2020, 09:42 AM

Nov 2020

Of course the majority of all voters who voted on Election Day would skew in Trumps direction since those polls don’t include the majority of Biden voters who voted by mail.

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How did Trump gain ground with minorities? [View all] Marius25 Nov 2020 OP

Authoritarianism. It appeals to some people. NutmegYankee Nov 2020 #1

Funny how they're more fearful of whatever they think socialism is then they of SammyWinstonJack Nov 2020 #31

The power of propaganda. NutmegYankee Nov 2020 #48

mostly becsuse Democrats didn't run a ground campaign while republicans did JI7 Nov 2020 #2

This was probably a big factor LeftInTX Nov 2020 #9

How do they know? I think it's bullshit. They trotted out a couple rappers to get you to believe Solomon Nov 2020 #3

Exit polls show 1/3 of Black men in the Midwest went for Trump. former9thward Nov 2020 #45

Exit polls were skewed extremely to the right since majority of Biden supporters voted by mail Todd79 Nov 2020 #55

You may not have followed the news. former9thward Nov 2020 #72

I would like to see the 5 - 10 polls out there saying they did. Not the 1 or 2 repeated by MJ uponit7771 Nov 2020 #4

I agree, gab13by13 Nov 2020 #7

The Rio Grande Valley (95% Mexican-American) lost 300,000 votes to Trump this cycle. LeftInTX Nov 2020 #16

WOW !!! WTF !? We need a deep dive analysis on this. I do believe Trump cheated & polls minimize uponit7771 Nov 2020 #21

El Paso lost voters to Trump also LeftInTX Nov 2020 #27

maybe one ballot drop box in the county had something to do with it Orangepeel Nov 2020 #47

They were brainwashed into hating the same people the MAGAs hate. Mexicans here for Boogiemack Nov 2020 #64

Yep. There was the self-loathing Hispanic guy who ran the Biden Bus off the road Captain Zero Nov 2020 #67

Lots of those types LeftInTX Nov 2020 #69

Because people are more than the categories we artificially put them in Bucky Nov 2020 #5

EXACTLY..... I have a cousin who is a gay union member yet supports tRump groundloop Nov 2020 #39

You say something enough times then people start believing it qanda Nov 2020 #6

Thank you Bucky Nov 2020 #10

This. AleksS Nov 2020 #17

Some people are attracted by homophobia. LuvNewcastle Nov 2020 #8

Not fair. You can pin this on Black men being homophobic if you want qanda Nov 2020 #20

I wasn't talking about black men specifically. LuvNewcastle Nov 2020 #32

You are correct. Marius25 Nov 2020 #54

I'm gay and I saw/heard very little homophobia in this election. yardwork Nov 2020 #25

I'm not necessarily talking about the election e. LuvNewcastle Nov 2020 #35

I have my doubts about the truth of this Sanity Claws Nov 2020 #11

Kanye Kardashian, Ice Cube, Fifty Cent, Lil Pimp + post-racial Magical Thinking + a boatload of lies PubliusEnigma Nov 2020 #12

Ice Cube never endorsed Trump, he only said that some in the White House looked at his plan Celerity Nov 2020 #18

Ice Cube appeared with Trump and supported his election. He can't go back now. PubliusEnigma Nov 2020 #23

Ice Cube clarifies political stance: "I'm not supporting Donald Trump" Celerity Nov 2020 #28

Ice Cube was used like a tool by Trump. PubliusEnigma Nov 2020 #30

so you have no proof to refute my actual links from the man's own mouth, gotcha Celerity Nov 2020 #33

Cube fucked up. At least you could admit it. Cube got nothing. Trump got a photo op. PubliusEnigma Nov 2020 #34

Lil Wayne too. cwydro Nov 2020 #29

The perception (not reality) of Trump's machismo and swagger Tarc Nov 2020 #13

Toxic masculinity is a hell of a drug (n/t) Spider Jerusalem Nov 2020 #14

This. yardwork Nov 2020 #26

+1 moondust Nov 2020 #38

Fascism and toxic masculinity go together like peanut butter and jelly. bullwinkle428 Nov 2020 #46

All of the votes have not been counted... orwell Nov 2020 #15

A lot more bdamomma Nov 2020 #19

$1,200 check and $600 a week additional unemployment. nt Kahuna Nov 2020 #22

A lot of men like to follow the perceived "tough guy" around AkFemDem Nov 2020 #24

I think the COVID situation is more complex than we believed genxlib Nov 2020 #36

Well said leighbythesea2 Nov 2020 #52

When I made similar comments in another post genxlib Nov 2020 #59

Trump's people are claiming they got 18% black males and 8% black females (up from 4%) peggysue2 Nov 2020 #37

I'm African American and I don't have a single helpisontheway Nov 2020 #41

Because people are not monolithic based on ethnicity. RelativelyJones Nov 2020 #40

I don't understand how a minority can support a man that tells the Proud Boys to stand by.. helpisontheway Nov 2020 #42

Roughly 20% of everyone just leans authoritarian. NutmegYankee Nov 2020 #49

There is a sense of being ignored/taken for granted among Black people in my region, its a little Nexus2 Nov 2020 #43

Identifying with the aggressor - aka Stockholm Syndrome AmericanCanuck Nov 2020 #44

Adverse reaction to the property damage and rioting this year Amishman Nov 2020 #50

He didn't..... Chakaconcarne Nov 2020 #51

Not everybody thinks "defund the police" is a good idea mathematic Nov 2020 #53

The Exit Polls This Year Are Not Reliable Todd79 Nov 2020 #56

Biden got about 70% of the Hispanic vote in Arizona StarryNite Nov 2020 #57

If true, it's due to a long-term, very effective social media strategy, ecstatic Nov 2020 #58

This message was self-deleted by its author pinkstarburst Nov 2020 #60

Trump is the reason Covid is so bad and the economy collapsed. Marius25 Nov 2020 #62

This message was self-deleted by its author pinkstarburst Nov 2020 #70

If you have no access to real news, you respond to campaign fear ads. Pobeka Nov 2020 #61

Exit polls are going to be off qdouble Nov 2020 #63

It was basically a small increase. Turin_C3PO Nov 2020 #65

That's where votes were switched. In areas they live. Captain Zero Nov 2020 #66

+1, but people will give Trump and the people who work around him the benefit of the doubt and uponit7771 Nov 2020 #68

easily hackable modems. Baltimike Nov 2020 #71