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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
16. Is it errors or evidence of voter suppression?
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 10:10 AM
Apr 2021

With all of the efforts by Republicans and Trump supporters to intimidate or inconvenience voters such as Gov. Abbots move to restrict Harris County to just one ballot drop box despite having 3 million residents, you have to think that these voter suppression efforts have to have some impact. Otherwise, Republicans would not be doin it.

Polling was wrong in 2016 as well. Lonestarblue Apr 2021 #1
Exactly, gab13by13 Apr 2021 #3
+1 infullview Apr 2021 #10
That would be an excellent study for an investigative journalist. Lonestarblue Apr 2021 #15
Exit polls seemed to be more accurate before electronic voting machines. aeromanKC Apr 2021 #21
This is the one fact that always sticks in my tin foil hat. mjvpi Apr 2021 #26
This. So. Much. This. CrispyQ Apr 2021 #47
Absofrickinglutely. Funtatlaguy Apr 2021 #53
I believe that all the R states use ES&S machines LiberalArkie Apr 2021 #42
*cough* GA uses Dominion. speak easy Apr 2021 #49
This is the same unhinged conspiracy theory that the pillow guy is pushing Jose Garcia Apr 2021 #48
Yes. The pollsters are either as dumb as dirt or deliberately have their heads in the sand. bullimiami Apr 2021 #6
Truth! Truth! Truth! CommonHumanity Apr 2021 #14
"If they are saying they need to compensate for expected cheating, well F that." wysimdnwyg Apr 2021 #18
Huh? Obscure cheating by factoring it intoi polls? Why would we want to do that? So thast we're KPN Apr 2021 #24
More comfortable? No wysimdnwyg Apr 2021 #32
Trump has a Rasputin-like hold over his voters Deminpenn Apr 2021 #2
+1 You are spot on with the Rasputin like hold thing kimbutgar Apr 2021 #27
The flip side is that Biden won because many wanted Trump out, but did not carry this further down question everything Apr 2021 #43
Believe that also to be true Deminpenn Apr 2021 #50
The racists crawl out from under their rocks to vote Trump NewJeffCT Apr 2021 #4
This was basically a re-run of 2016 BeyondGeography Apr 2021 #5
Biden won Pa. pretty handily, gab13by13 Apr 2021 #12
He won by 1.5 points and most polls had him up by much more than that BeyondGeography Apr 2021 #13
Very interesting article. FM123 Apr 2021 #7
Here we go again...pollsters explaining how they blew a game that was rigged by the GOP. Ford_Prefect Apr 2021 #8
I don't know that we'll ever have the accuracy in polling we once had inwiththenew Apr 2021 #9
That's my Rebl2 Apr 2021 #17
In 2018, I worked GOTV canvasing where I live. With a list of registered Ds and their addresses, I KPN Apr 2021 #25
Ugh, what state? LymphocyteLover Apr 2021 #28
Oregon ... rural area. KPN Apr 2021 #40
I would imagine you are in a largely Democratic area then dsc Apr 2021 #37
Yes, but I feel confident in saying that after meeting the people, and in one case knowing the KPN Apr 2021 #41
Leave the research behind and go talk in the streets question everything Apr 2021 #11
to me, it just shows the power of rightwing propaganda LymphocyteLover Apr 2021 #29
Riots in Portland weren't left wingers. Elessar Zappa Apr 2021 #39
Portland government is Democratic. It showed the helplessness and incompetence of question everything Apr 2021 #46
It is all because of Trump AZProgressive Apr 2021 #52
Telling a bunch of people living below the poverty line that they are privileged cinematicdiversions Apr 2021 #54
Yes, interesting observation question everything Apr 2021 #55
I actually don't see that on the left AZProgressive Apr 2021 #56
Is it errors or evidence of voter suppression? TomCADem Apr 2021 #16
many factors can explain it and voter suppression is a big part of it LymphocyteLover Apr 2021 #30
ChumpHumpers are gleefully lying to pollsters FakeNoose Apr 2021 #19
Rooted in the 1950s, polling is torpedoed by social media, church and business affiliations bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #20
"moderates such as TLP"? LymphocyteLover Apr 2021 #33
The Lincoln Project bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #35
93% of Republicans voted for Trump in 2020 AZProgressive Apr 2021 #51
Article conclusions: GOP distrust of polling, low propensity voters, not at home, late movement andym Apr 2021 #22
Reason 2 is what happened Deminpenn Apr 2021 #36
Yes, great points LymphocyteLover Apr 2021 #38
HAVA BadGimp Apr 2021 #23
I suspect you're right. During the Bush years the Republicans targeted and replaced the governors Gaugamela Apr 2021 #34
Most of the people I know do not answer calls from an unknown number. I don't. Many have their Gaugamela Apr 2021 #31
The error is taking polls more seriously than a snapshop of a small sample of people are feeling ... marble falls Apr 2021 #44
There's a reason why Trump was so pushy about claiming victory LiberalLovinLug Apr 2021 #45
The GOP has been waging a war on voting since I have been alive AZProgressive Apr 2021 #57
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