“Oh boy this is going to be a nail biter; a real long night; and we might not know who will control the Senate until January!” Reading sites like Real Clear Politics (RCP) this was the only reasonable position to take yesterday.
In race after race across the country we were told that Republican candidates were losing the strong lead we intuitively knew they had. We heard from RCP and elsewhere that Tom Cotton’s lead had fallen to just 2 points when that same day another poll had him plus 12. Both were factored in and of course that diluted the real number down to 6 points. “Two points; maybe all of this happy talk is just that – happy talk,” we were supposed to believe.
So why did this happen? What skews the otherwise clear thinking brains at RCP? The answer seems to shout itself to us. They use obvious psy-ops, or psychological operations polls – lies made up by the media and the Democrats designed to dampen the enthusiasm of their victims. . The naïve RCP guys developed a theory that really sounded reasonable a few cycles ago. It holds that by throwing in every poll that pops up, even knowing some were psy-ops polls, they would get an accurate picture of what was happening in various races because “Things would balance out.” Well they didn’t “balance out” in a few very important races and this was no accident.
Like everything else in politics the polling process has been polluted by the Left.
By falling for, or willingly cooperating with, liberal psy-ops polls in its final projection, RCP had Colorado Georgia and Iowa as toss up Senate races...
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