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senseandsensibility

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Fri Oct 11, 2024, 06:00 PM Oct 11

The ferocity of the effort to make it look like trump is winning means [View all]

they don't think he is. According to Simon Rosenberg, last week their were 25 rightwing affiliated polls flooding the zone; this week it is more. There are almost no leftwing affiliated polls.

What would they get out of this? Two things, possibly: create a narrative so that low-info voters want to join the "winners" and create the illusion of winning to support inevitable claims of election fraud in case of loss.

As Rosenberg has pointed out recently, if the rightwing polls were factored out in 2020, they remaining polls were accurate. So why are the RW polls being used by some analysts now except to create a false "red wave" narrative? Rosenberg also blasts the media for not reporting on this flood of rightwing polls.

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harris compaign spam texts I get act like the sky is falling and it is not raising any money yet news reports brag msongs Oct 11 #1
I read that she has raised one billion senseandsensibility Oct 11 #2
We always need money downballot IbogaProject Oct 11 #23
2 reasons gab13by13 Oct 11 #3
Exactly! And, Simon is all over it!! Quakerfriend Oct 11 #4
THIS! THIS!! THIS!!! calimary Oct 11 #25
Hes not expecting to win. slightlv Oct 11 #5
He has six votes. That's all he thinks he needs. usonian Oct 11 #8
After GW, he probably doesn't need exactly 6, either... slightlv Oct 11 #17
It's OK to rig the deck. This is America, after all. usonian Oct 11 #20
What kind of person does that? Cirsium Oct 11 #9
The audacity of some people, eh? I'd have gifted whoever stole my stuff slightlv Oct 11 #13
Spray them .. littlemissmartypants Oct 11 #14
"No chemical odor" is interesting wording. intrepidity Oct 12 #26
It's definitely organic... littlemissmartypants Oct 12 #27
such an important point.... also it feeds into claims that the election was stolen (assuming he loses) LymphocyteLover Oct 11 #6
It helps keep donations flowing RidinWithHarris Oct 11 #7
Hopefully we will be talking about the Harris Republicans crud Oct 11 #10
Your comment makes me think that there is an additional benefit. . . Collimator Oct 11 #12
I expect that they plan to overthrow the government when Trump doesn't win the election bhikkhu Oct 11 #11
I mentioned that awhile ago.. & somebody Cha Oct 11 #18
The polls.might convince the Trumpists, but wnylib Oct 11 #21
Not "out there" when it comes to Trump. He has no boundaries or restraints on what he will do. wnylib Oct 11 #22
Tight polls motivate Democratic voters bucolic_frolic Oct 11 #15
Yes.. So Ferocious! Including Riding in a Military plane Cha Oct 11 #16
How do you know that they're losing? When they say "Get over it". usonian Oct 11 #19
That scene in Gettysburg is one of my favorites in all of cinema Wiz Imp Oct 11 #24
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