One of the staples of media reports on the evening of Election Day is exit polls. These have been around for decades. Much has been said about broadcasting such info while the polls are still open in western states, but the practice continues.
Sundance over at CTH has addressed the issue of exit polling as part of a larger narrative on the presentation of election issues by the media. As usual, he lays out a very clear picture of just what the media try to do with exit polling narratives.
All exit polling is pushed by media in their effort to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. The election year media polling is already skewed with manipulated outcomes; they do the same thing with the exit polling, only they do it on election day in rapid succession.
Again, just a brief reminder:… if the media are willing to set up planted audience members to the benefit of Joe Biden (they have); and if the media are willingly and purposefully going to manipulate debate moderators, debate questions and non-questions, and town-hall audience scripts to undermine President Trump (again, they have); then what do you think those same media outlets are doing with their polling?
Put another way: If the media are willing to create intentionally false impressions for broadcast what are they doing with the polling they are paying for?
The same manipulative approach happens with “exit polling.”
As we saw in 2016 the exit polling was exactly the opposite of the election result. At 5:00pm Eastern the media were proclaiming Hillary Clinton the clear winner based on their “exit polls.” The national polling places were not even closed yet.
For hours this narrative was pushed despite central time zone and west coast still voting. Additionally, despite warnings those media pronouncements created a tremendous amount of anxiety amid Trump supporters. You will remember by 9pm the actual results started coming in and they showed something entirely different. The exact opposite of the exit polling.
The media never explained why their “exit polling” was so wrong; they just moved on to the attack and resistance approach against President-Elect Trump.
They didn’t explain the difference because media did not make mistakes with exit polls, or carry the wrong approach toward gathering the outcomes. The media FABRICATED the content of the exit polls, and they did so with specific and purposeful intent.
Exit polls are entirely manufactured to give the election analysts a narrative for broadcast. That is their only purpose. Ignore MSM Exit Polling!
I agree with Sundance about exit polls. At one time, when such polls were done with integrity, this may have helped networks make predictions about overall outcomes earlier in the evening than otherwise would have been possible. In the current environment where almost all media outlets are in the tank for Biden and the Democrats, the only poll that matters is the actual vote count.
Keep in mind, the Democrats are the most devious, most shrewd, most persistence cheaters and liars in this nation and they will not stop at trying to manipulate vote counts in every precinct where they believe they can get away with it.
Everyone needs to vote and also needs to know if true Republicans (pro Trump) are in their precinct room and participating when the ballots are counted. The Democrats intend to win by any means necessary. We cannot allow the type of blatant cheating that went on the last time to be present this time. Jill Stein accidentally exposed a lot of that the last election with her recount fiasco.
