Republicans and Bias in Midterm Polls
The Byron York Show
Radio America
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:22.4 | We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is a big issue for Republicans |
| 0:29.0 | and has been for many, many years and it's the question of bias in polling and specifically, |
| 0:36.6 | obviously, we have midterm elections coming up. So it's bias in midterm pollings. |
| 0:40.9 | Now, you know, if you've followed any of this, Republicans always believe that the polls are slanted |
| 0:48.8 | against them. Now, that belief has sometimes caused them to misread big political races. |
| 0:58.2 | I remember 2012 that was Mitt Romney trying to defeat incumbent President Barack Obama. |
| 1:04.8 | 2012, a lot of Republicans convinced themselves that Romney was actually going to defeat |
| 1:13.1 | an incumbent president. There was a lot of talk about unscuing the polls. Remember that? |
| 1:17.6 | All the polls were skewed, so you had to unscue them. And then Obama beat Romney pretty handling. |
| 1:25.2 | So that was kind of an exercise in self-deception on the part of Republicans. |
| 1:33.5 | Now, that said, there have also been some egregious examples since then of polling bias. |
| 1:40.7 | Or just calling polling mistakes, if you want to, I don't want to call it bias, |
| 1:44.2 | calling mistakes. In the years since Donald Trump entered politics, on many occasions, |
| 1:51.7 | pollsters have seemed unable to measure Trump's true appeal, especially in state-level polls. |
| 2:00.2 | Not problems not as bad nationally, but in state-level polls, which of course is extremely |
| 2:06.2 | important in midterm elections and also for the electoral college and presidential elections. |
| 2:12.4 | State-level polls, particularly problematic. So let's go to 2016. Six years ago, |
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