The Award For Most Goofy Poll Goes To…

Can you guess who?

If you guessed CNN, you’re right!

Read their poll from last night’s (Oct. 09, 2016) second Presidential Debate and see if you spot something funny — as in humorous funny.

Don’t re-read it too hard, it’s been a long day.

So the poll says Hillary Clinton won the debate with 57% to 34% for Donald Trump — ok, now read the last sentence again.

That’s right, the poll started with 58% of the polees already being Hillary Clinton supporters.

In other words, she dropped 1% of her own supporters in the poll.

Well, I’ll give them credit for putting that part of the methodology right in the article.

I admit, I am over-simplifying things slightly to emphasize the liberal media bias.

There is more methodology involved but I’ll do CNN a favor this time — it gets worse the further you dig into their numbers.

To give you a quick idea — all 537 participants were white, no other racial representation whatsoever, all participants were over 50 years old, no representation at all from the Western U.S., no rural participants (19% of the population, and so on.

Basically, it is a heavily skewed poll designed to give the answer they wanted — they want you to believe Hillary won the debate. They did the same type of over-sampling after the last debate as well, so this was no suprise.

Of course, The Guardian, being the Social Justice Warriors that they are, just used this scientific poll to dispute the online poll on the Drudge website in their article entitled, Who won last night’s debate? 68% say Trump, but here’s why it’s garbage under the section — ahem — US Politics Skeptical Polling

CNN, together with the market research company ORC, conducted a poll with a more robust methodology, although they only managed to speak to 537 registered voters in total (only 27% of whom identified as Republican). -The Guardian

Everyone knows the online polls are not scientific, and of course the audience of whatever site it’s on is going to influence the outcome.

But to use the CNN masterpiece of a poll to debunk other polls — c’mon Guardian sheesh.

Since they don’t matter anyway, (even though they do have millions of participants), they are interesting to look at.

Here’s a few I took screen shots from. I started marking the sites they were from but gave up when it became obvious the results were going to be similar whether it was a conservative, liberal, mainstream, or fringe site.

They’re just for kicks anyway:

And so on…

HM