News Media Scrambles to explain away Hillary collapse in
Polls - ABC caught in Middle with faulty sampling data
The Washington Post ABC News tracking poll shows Hillary
Clinton collapse from a twelve-point lead to six points in just three
days. This astonishing collapse in her
lead does not even reflect the devastating news about the Obamacare financial
fiasco, or the never-ending stream of damaging emails released by Wiki Leaks,
which detail how the Clinton
organization made a non-profit foundation into a multi-million dollar slush
fund for the family.
The tracking poll, under ABC news anchor and political director
George Stephanopoulos, deviated from
three other tracking polls by twelve points just three days ago when all the
liberal news networks declared the race was over and Hillary was the winner.
Stephanopoulos,
you might remember, is a former United States Democratic Party political
adviser who served as a Communications Director for the Bill Clinton 1992
Presidential Campaign and worked for President Clinton with Rahm Emanuel, Clinton fundraiser and
Obama Chief of Staff. George
subsequently became Clinton's White House Communications Director, then Senior
Adviser for Policy and Strategy before departing in December 1996.
Did I mention
George Stephanopoulos also contributed several thousand dollars to the Clinton
Foundation, after he joined ABC News, which seems to be a conflict of interest
for a news anchor of a major television network?
The Hillary
Clinton campaign adopted the news media strategy of saying the presidential
race is over, thus allowing Clinton
to reduce the number of campaign events, to attend a concert by British pop singer
Adele, and redirect her efforts to getting house and senate candidates elected. Over-confidence by the nominee seemed to be dominate in the past few weeks.
What in the world,
is a British endorsement going to do in the American presidential
campaign? Last time a politician tried
to influence an election in another country, like when President Obama went to
the United Kingdom
and told the voters to vote against withdrawing from the European Union or
there would be a world economic collapse, the British voters ignored him and
voted to leave the EU, and there has been no economic collapse.
Now Hillary
attends a concert of Adele, gets an endorsement, and considers it a campaign
event. About the only contribution Adele
can make to the American election is to remind Hillary how to handle being sick
and cancelling concert appearances, which she does often.
As for the polls,
when word leaked out that the polls were purposefully over-sampling Democrats,
not even the Washington Post could stand the heat. Three days ago, the poll reflected a nine
percent over-sample; today the same poll reduced the Democrat over-sample to
seven percent. There was no mention of
this poll manipulation in reports today of the huge collapse in Clinton support by ABC or
George.
The ABC poll
remains six to seven points different from all three other tracking polls due
to the continued over-sample of Democrats.
In truth, there is a dead heat in the race and it is far too close to
call, very different from the networks and newspapers claiming last week, the
race was over, and projecting a Hillary landslide.
So does this
constitute "rigging" the election as Trump claimed? The voters will be the judge on Election
Day. Enjoy the next week of liberal national
media types choking over the real status and all of a sudden trying to explain
Trump might have a shot after all.
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