How Come Trump’s Ahead in the Polls?

Mike Weisser
4 min read6 days ago

I hate to say it, but I’m beginning to think that all the polls which show Trump slightly ahead of Biden are simply wrong. And the reason they are wrong is because the polls never ask respondents why they respond the way they respond.

I’m looking at the NYT/Siena poll released yesterday, which is making waves all through the Fake News echo chamber because it shows Trump with a 6-point lead over Joe among registered voters, when back in April they were basically tied.

Except this gap not only leaves 10% still ‘undecided,’ but the hot dog-shit with scattered glass number has actually slightly increased over the past couple of months, and more to the point, we aren’t given any guidance as to why so many voters can’t make up their minds about two candidates who are both either current or former Presidents, so it’s not as if voters can’t make up their minds because one or both candidates simply aren’t very well known.

Back in 2010, when the Republicans were all so gleeful over polls which showed that a solid majority of Americans were unfavorably disposed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act, what the polls didn’t reveal was that half the respondents who said they didn’t like the plan were against it because — ready — it didn’t go far enough!

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