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In a detailed analysis of phone versus online polling in Republican primaries, Kyle A. Dropp, the executive director of polling and data science at Morning Consult, writes:
Trump’s advantage in online polls compared with live telephone polling is eight or nine percentage points among likely voters.
This difference, Dropp notes, is driven largely by more educated voters — those who would be most concerned with “social desirability.”
These findings suggest that Trump will head into the general election with support from voters who are reluctant to admit their preferences to a live person in a phone survey, but who may well be inclined to cast a ballot for Trump on Election Day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/o...ort-trump-but-dont-want-to-admit-it.html?_r=0
I am one of those educated voters that is truly afraid of declaring to the ignorant group of people that I am voting for Trump.
There are millions like me as the above article described...hesitant in live telephone polling. Hesitant to provide facts supporting Trump because anti-Trump people don't deal with facts.
For example. Anti-Trump people constantly refer to Trump as "anti-immigrant".
Proof this is a common misperception?
Google search shows About 42,500 results for "Trump is anti-immigrant".
Proof from a former CBS reporter, Sheryl Attkisson........
The news media often conflates illegal immigration and legal immigration, as if they are one in the same. But for the sake of accuracy, the distinction must be noted. The nation is split on many immigration questions yet decisive on the general issue of illegal immigration: in a CBS News poll, 84% of Americans viewed illegal immigration as a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem. In other words: most Americans support legal immigration and oppose illegal immigration. That’s the same view Trump has expressed. Is it fair for the press to call Trump (and, by implication, 84% of Americans) “anti-immigrant” for opposing illegal immigration, while supporting legal immigration?
Fact Check: Media claims that Trump is anti-immigrant | Sharyl Attkisson
So based on this built in ignorance and bias by the MSM, THE MSM is overlooking the simple fact that 84% of Americans are "ANTI-ILLEGAL Immigration"!
So with that basis the MSM is not only ignoring the truth, i.e. Trump MARRIED a LEGAL immigrant, but that HE wants LEGAL immigration! He like 84% of Americans want people who come to the USA legally.
With that then it is totally feasible that the current polling is ignoring the FACT that millions of people like me, I call them "Cowards for Trump" will be pulling the lever behind the privacy of the voting booth for Trump!
Trump’s advantage in online polls compared with live telephone polling is eight or nine percentage points among likely voters.
This difference, Dropp notes, is driven largely by more educated voters — those who would be most concerned with “social desirability.”
These findings suggest that Trump will head into the general election with support from voters who are reluctant to admit their preferences to a live person in a phone survey, but who may well be inclined to cast a ballot for Trump on Election Day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/o...ort-trump-but-dont-want-to-admit-it.html?_r=0
I am one of those educated voters that is truly afraid of declaring to the ignorant group of people that I am voting for Trump.
There are millions like me as the above article described...hesitant in live telephone polling. Hesitant to provide facts supporting Trump because anti-Trump people don't deal with facts.
For example. Anti-Trump people constantly refer to Trump as "anti-immigrant".
Proof this is a common misperception?
Google search shows About 42,500 results for "Trump is anti-immigrant".
Proof from a former CBS reporter, Sheryl Attkisson........
The news media often conflates illegal immigration and legal immigration, as if they are one in the same. But for the sake of accuracy, the distinction must be noted. The nation is split on many immigration questions yet decisive on the general issue of illegal immigration: in a CBS News poll, 84% of Americans viewed illegal immigration as a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem. In other words: most Americans support legal immigration and oppose illegal immigration. That’s the same view Trump has expressed. Is it fair for the press to call Trump (and, by implication, 84% of Americans) “anti-immigrant” for opposing illegal immigration, while supporting legal immigration?
Fact Check: Media claims that Trump is anti-immigrant | Sharyl Attkisson
So based on this built in ignorance and bias by the MSM, THE MSM is overlooking the simple fact that 84% of Americans are "ANTI-ILLEGAL Immigration"!
So with that basis the MSM is not only ignoring the truth, i.e. Trump MARRIED a LEGAL immigrant, but that HE wants LEGAL immigration! He like 84% of Americans want people who come to the USA legally.
With that then it is totally feasible that the current polling is ignoring the FACT that millions of people like me, I call them "Cowards for Trump" will be pulling the lever behind the privacy of the voting booth for Trump!
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