There has been about a dozen new polls in the last week regarding the Democratic Primaries. Only one of them came from any of the pollsters that the DNC has labeled to be acceptable. Currently Tulsi Gabbard has reached the 2% threshold in 26 polls. Only one of those 26 is part of those that the Democratic Party is accepting. She had already had that one poll at the time of the previous debates, but has not managed to find even one more in any of the post-debate DNC approved pollsters (which seems like only a handful released since the last debate). This is especially odd because Gabbard seemed to have a significantly well played debate.
Now quite obviously the Democratic Party can run the Democratic Party how they want to run it. Obviously they can choose to accept or reject pollsters based on whatever criteria that the would want to consider. Certainly the list that they have approved is not the "best" pollsters. Some of them listed or considered wildly inaccurate (according to 538 rankings), while many left out have been consistently more accurate than those on the DNC list. Rather, they seem to have taken a large amount of stock in MSM commissioned pollsters, as well as those pollsters that have traditionally been kind to Democrats.
The challenge and the potential issue for the Party is that people will start to feel like the Party is once again attempting to manipulate the process, much like they did for Hillary Clinton last time around. Certainly the support for Tom Steyer or Tulsi Gabbard is not the same as what Bernie Sanders had in 2016, but this sort of thing could still spill over to supporters of a losing candidate if they feel that the process was not objective and fair to "everyone". Every sign of mis justice could be amplified.
Lord knows they will still need to deal with their insane concept of "Superdelegates" where in a close three or four way race like we may see, those Superdelegates might be the sole deciding factor. One can only imagine how upset Sanders and Warren supporters would be if Slow Joe Biden continues his downward trek, only to be "saved" by Superdelegates who see him as the best chance of defeating Trump.
Either way, there seems to be almost an outward plot to have a majority of these approved pollsters hold off until after the August 28th deadline. This would be good news for the Party as they can avoid having to split up the debate into two groups again. The number of 10 (still a large number) seems to be pretty much set. That is the exact number that the Party probably wanted to see. That is the exact number that the Party will see. Perhaps it's just a coincidence?
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Of course they are Lil Scotty....never too early to start the next conspiracy theory by low brow and intellect right wing idiots like you!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Interesting tidbit of history. The superdelegate rule was created after the landslide loss of George McGovern to prevent the Democrat party from swinging wildly to the left again.
Americans Feel Better About Race Relations, And Other Trump Poll Results The Press Doesn’t Want You To Know About
How do you cover a poll that shows satisfaction with the economy, despite all the harrumphing about an impending recession, is much higher than it ever was under President Barack Obama? Or reveals that views on race relations are actually better today than three years ago? Or shows that most think the political system is being shaken up in a good way?
Answer: You don’t. That is, if you’re a mainstream media outlet and the poll is your own.
Here’s the scary headline NBC News ran on the poll it conducted with the Wall Street Journal and published over the weekend: “’A deep and boiling anger’: NBC/WSJ poll finds a pessimistic America despite current economic satisfaction.”
The really important finding, according to NBC, was that “70% of Americans say they’re angry at the political establishment.”
But it turns out that this anger level is unchanged since October 2015. That means the “deep and boiling anger” was happening under Obama. Why isn’t that the headline?
Sure, you can say that the anger has continued under Trump. But the story we’ve been told repeatedly for two years is that Trump is responsible for the current climate of hatred and discord. The fact that the poll debunks this narrative is newsworthy.
The NBC reporters covering their own poll ignore another newsworthy finding. More people feel good about race relations today than they did under Obama.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The poll found that more than a third (36%) say that relations between races are very or fairly good. That’s hardly a great number. But it’s up from 24% in July 2016, after nearly eight years of Obama.
Even more shocking, 36% of Hispanics rate race relations as good, which is up from 23% in July 2016.
When an unexpected finding like that emerges from a poll, journalists would — under normal circumstances — judge it newsworthy.
But, because this particular finding runs counter to the liberal media narrative that Trump is sowing racial hatred, NBC ignores it. Instead, it focuses on the finding that 56% think race relations have gotten worse under Trump.
That’s not good news, either, but it’s not as bad as NBC wants people to think. After all, the public felt exactly the same under Obama. A CNN poll taken in 2016 found that 54% said race relations had worsened under Obama. A Rasmussen poll that year found that 60% of likely voters thought relations between races had deteriorated over the prior eight years. Gallup found that the share of blacks who felt race relations were good plunged from 66% in 2013 to 49% in 2016.
There’s another finding that would be, if it weren’t for Trump, newsworthy. The poll asked whether those surveyed felt “satisfied that our political system is being shaken up and those who have been ignored for too long are now being heard and put first.”
Given how Democrats and the mainstream press describe the current administration — as helping rich, greedy corporations at the expense of working families — you’d think that few would agree with the sentiment. Yet 52% did. NBC ignores this finding as well.
When the media can’t even report on their own findings with any degree of reliability, what does that say about stories where they have a less direct connection to the facts?
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/08/27/three-poll-results-on-trump-the-press-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/
Well Denny...
In 2016 it wasn't a conspiracy theory that the DNC was in the bag for Clinton, it was documented fact once the DNC emails were released on Wikileaks. It won't take much for people supporting a liberal or fringe candidate to believe that the DNC has not learned any lessons or is still playing favorites.
It Cost Bernie the Nomination.
2020, let's really see IF the Nation is done with Capitalism and desiring Full blown Socialism.
Please Nominate Poccahatous or crazy Uncle Bernie.
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