South Carolina Primary Polling Discrepancies and Media Bias
The accuracy of political polling is questioned following the South Carolina primary results, where Donald Trump secured a significant victory despite polls suggesting a tightening race. Media outlets including ABC, NBC, and the Wall Street Journal are criticized for promoting data that indicated Ted Cruz was closing the gap. The discrepancy between the "magic number" of 33% for Trump and the pre-election polling suggests either significant technical failure or intentional media manipulation to portray Trump as fading.
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00:00 To me, it's the handshake of the devil. Lifted my head up from the secure enclave I've been studying all weekend and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state Austin Tejas, FEMA region 6 in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm wondering why is he shouting? I'm John C. Dvorak. Because I have some very important information to convey that's why like this like what well alert the affiliates I'm clip light
00:41 Clip light today. What would the affiliates care? You're right I'm saying it for you production production, but I got plenty of clips to you wait Because a Thursday we had Democratic Town Hall we had a GOP downhaul recording the town of Downhall Downhall is good at Down all I recorded both But yeah, I was really into the Apple thing and then will talk about won't do it right now I looked at these things, it was so boring John. I couldn't bring myself to watch it did you watch any of this stuff? It's so boring! I just got a few miscellaneous things...I let other people watch it. So boring man Yeah very boring. Alright I'll tell ya something there are couple of things that struck me
01:27 One was that the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Wall Street Journal, Marist, these different polls and anything that involves a Wall Street Journal. These polls are garbage." Oh yeah this was the big one that said Cruz was ahead of Trump Well, there was that. It was the one that everyone just said oh god let me just understand so what I saw is Trump won with the magic number 33 and then it was Rubio Cruz with 22 each What happened to the poll? The poll was clearly way off well does the Wall Street Journal go back and say gee we have to go recalculate or look at what our polling is
02:10 Well, everybody wanted these polls to go that way. Let's listen to the A- this is before the election This is ABC reports on the polls and you can see what they're trying to do here Breaking developments on both sides tonight in South Carolina The Republican rumble and the new poll tonight Donald Trump at 28% but his lead not as large as before Ted Cruz closing in five points behind there Marco Rubio in third with 15 percent So they're, so what are the, you know. So Rubio's got 50. They're way off! These polls the day before the election they're not even close These polls are bogus. Yeah, and ABC and NBC both were all in on trying to indicate that Trump was fading and perhaps could lose. But now John this is NBC News in the Wall Street Journal! This cannot just... we cannot let this slip by without saying hello
