It’s August now, and the political polling season is swinging into high gear.
So it’s time for your fun annual reminder from yours truly!
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The number one job of political pollsters...
...pay attention here, it’s really important...
...is to stay in business, keep their lights on, and build their brand.
Now, you’d THINK they’d try to accomplish this by **accurately reflecting the public’s opinions in their polls**.
But that’s not really what political pollsters do for a living.
They do gaslight you by claiming that is what they do for their living.
But that’s not really what they do.
They are not being paid by their clients to ACCURATELY REFLECT THE PUBLIC’S OPINION.
Political pollsters are paid by their clients to do something VERY DIFFERENT from accurately reflecting the opinion of the public.
The pollsters are paid to GASLIGHT THE PUBLIC by their paying clients.
Read that again 10 times until it fully sinks in.
Especially if this is a pollster who has a FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA CHANNEL, NEWSPAPER OR WEBSITE as their top paying client.
Like Fox News pollsters, for instance. Pollsters who’s biggest paying client is Fox News.
Fox News, CNN, ABC News, etc. are not PAYING these pollsters to accurately gauge public opinion. If the polls were accurate the public would realize many of these races are over already.
The news channels and the newspapers want to keep you paying attention and reading their coverage right up to Election Month.
For this reason, the political entities PAY these pollsters to gaslight the public that many of these races are SUPER DUPER CLOSE and anything, ANYTHING, could tip the balance in the favor this or that party of candidate at ANY TIME.
Ooooh! Real edge-of-the-seat suspense, right?
Right now in Texas the pollsters are furiously gas lighting to give people the idea that Talarico is gonna get even within YODELING DISTANCE of Paxton for the US Senate seat being vacated by John Cornyn.
A Democrat hasn’t won a race for federal office in Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.
I was 24 years old in 1988, just getting in politics that year as Junior in Bible College.
I am now 62 years old. So it was 38 years ago that Democrat won a federal office in Texas.
And the last couple of Democrats to win in Texas, like Bentsen and Bob Bullock and Ann Richards, were middle-of-the-road MODERATES.
They were nowhere near being the DSA soy boy freakazoid that Talarico is.
But does Fox News want you to reflect on that?
Of course not. There’s over 80 days to go until the midterm elections. Fox News wants you on the edge of that seat, watching their news coverage of races like that right up to Election Day. Or month, depending on what state you live in.
So Fox News and other paying clients of these political polling companies are not paying them to tell you that Talarico is gonna lose to Paxton by high double-digits in the 15-18pt range.
The new outlets pay these pollsters to KEEP PEOPLE READING AND WATCHING THEIR POLITICAL NEWS COVERAGE.
So this is what they’re PAYING their POLLSTERS to TELL YOU right now:
And if you ever forget this, or take your eyes off of it, you’re gonna get sucked back into the UniParty Matrix.
And that would be a ver’ ver’ bad thing...
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