www.chicksonright.com Over the weekend, I started reading the results of the recent Fox News poll and pondered the option of writing a summary of their data. It took me about two minutes to get through the headlines and takeaways, to immediately reflect on the inaccurate polling of the 2016 election. So instead of summarizing the Fox News poll data, I need to talk about my opinion on polls in 2019.
Back in 2016, every single poll informed us for months that Hillary Clinton was going to win by a landslide. How accurate were those polls? Have Americans who still trust today’s political polls forgotten the atrocities of 2016? Do they have amnesia, or are they just really forgiving? After spending 3 minutes on Twitter, reading comments reacting to the Fox News poll results, I quickly concluded most are not forgiving folk. Quite frankly, many people are fed up with flawed polls, and like myself have not forgotten the polls of 2016 and never will.
I will also never forget The New York Times apologizing to its audience about how they blew it on Trump. And yet news networks ignore their past mistakes and continue to obsess with new polling information every week.
This Fox News poll is just another poll meant to create public opinion, not measure it. Golly gee, Fox News, thanks. Your flawed poll is just the type of propaganda that the loons at CNN thrive on: “READ MORE…”