Why I’ll never trust PPP’s polls

Why I’ll never trust PPP’s polls. When push-poll becomes shove-poll: “Do you believe conservative media want white people to think Barack Obama hates them?” And by the way, do you still beat your wife? Polling!

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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    • Damn MSH, just clicked through & remember reading that then after seeing it again, never connected the two. Huh, I use IHTM as a wind down a lot, know the on-line personalities here better, been tempted to cross-post at other related sites (guess I'm a lurker there) but always held back without knowing the history and looking like an ass. (don't know the flow or commentators @ that site drb always helps me w/ for example)

      Considering your history, I do have one Q (meaning a fly-over country perspective of something I read recently from your neck of the woods, totally unrelated), it's about a one line quote I just read from out "there" that just made me sit straight up.

      I'd love to follow you for a week and just "carry your stuff, run errands and take notes, and listen of course."

      [edit] that was not a job application, just a thought.

  • Just one example of why when a pollster calls (and there have been a boat load this year) I answer in German and call them dirty names and hang up. In Kalifornia most of the polls are tilted to the left so when you answer as a conservative they always want to ask "clarifying questions"...When they do that I hang up.....The last one that called Friday night got pissed because when He asked me who I was voting for for president, I said I would only tell him if he told me first, I told him I was polling pollsters so I could release a survey on pollster bias...he hung up on me....:)