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New Fox Poll Has Biden Leading Trump: ‘His Best Result This Election Cycle’

www.mediaite.com New Fox Poll Has Biden Leading Trump: ‘His Best Result This Election Cycle’

A new Fox News poll shows President Joe Biden leading former President Donald Trump.

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Remember that it's not the popular vote that counts, it's the electoral college, and current polling gives Trump a 2-in-3 chance of winning the college:

https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president

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- Me reading this link getting 2016 flashbacks
  
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  Dude I’ve been getting those vibes since it became apparent Trump couldn’t be kept from becoming the GOP nominee
  
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  I'd say Biden is in an even worse position, his push to the far right on immigration, economics, genocide etc. because he thinks he has voters over a barrel has alienated and demoralized a lot of voters. He's quite literally to the right of Ronald Reagan at this point on so many issues, it's a tall order to ask non-conservatives to vote for him when he's literally just a Republican.
  
  His inability to change course very well might cost him the election, and even if he does squeak out a win it guaruntees that the Democratic party will continue to see moving right and supporting genocide as the way to win elections.
  
  US democracy is kind of a walking corpse at this point I think. People just don't want to acknowledge what the problems are and think kicking the can down the road some more will help.
  
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- 538 has it much closer https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
  
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  538 has been unreliable for several election cycles, though..
  
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- Democracy, fuck yeah!
  
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  Americans desperately need to believe they're a shining city on a hill, even when we're all living hip-deep in the muck alongside everyone else.
  
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Polls are for pundits.

Vote in November.

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- Swings in polls are notable, and there's reason to believe Trump's conviction hurt his approval among independents.
  
  Will this last? Idk. Hillary was up by 10-pts in October and crashed to a dead-heat on election day. But it should be worth considering what current events have a positive or negative impact on a candidate's approval.
  
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  We can thank the "trumpland" FBI for that swing. I know it's a fan-fave to blame Hillary for that swing, but it's not like she told the FBI to open an "investigation" into Buttery Males, and not mention that donnie was under investigation when making that big splashy announcement about Hillary...
  
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  What does that information ultimately do for a citizen who is not in the field?
  
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The polls are absolute shit. You can draw a little bit of a conclusion that if Biden went up by 2 points, that probably means that wherever the real answer is, it might not be crazy to think it went up by somewhere from 1 to 3 points because of something that happened. That part may be worth being slightly happy about. But whether that real answer is +2 like they say, or -10, or +20, modern polls actually can't tell you, and all these people that are telling you they can, are lying. In my opinion.

Source: I looked through the methodology they actually use for this polling and found it to be dogshit, and then looked up a few polls for recent elections and found that the poll differed from the actual result of the election by an average of 16 percentage points.

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- Polls are dogshit.
  
  But poll movements are worth tracking as long as the dogshit quality remains consistent.
  
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  True but what the poster said is important: polls do not work well in close races because they don't sample correctly. The average poll respondent is older, whiter, and more conservative than the average voter. So you end up with a skewed sample. Plus you sample so few of the other voters that you can't make a guess as to what they think.
  
  No younger people answer the phone for pollsters, so this is hard to fix. They are probably going to have to start paying people to answer surveys. I know I won't answer them for 15 or 20 minutes for free.
  
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Don’t care, voting Brandon. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

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- That sort of lead sounds irrational
  
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  Nah, that's a natural number. An irrational lead would be if he lead by π or something like that.
  
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Remember everyone- vote as if there are no polls!

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- Tell that to France
  
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  And Poland.
  
  I'll see myself out
  
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For those who forgot polls don't mean shit and only voting matters:

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Can we talk about how the graphic didn't sort the results in any kind of chronological order? Today, then October 2023, then May 2024 is an insane way to present this data. Go either oldest first or newest first sort order.

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- That sort of thing is pretty common for Fox.
  
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"leading former President Donald Trump 50% to 48%, nationally."

We do not have national elections.

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- True, they've become an international affair, contrary to the rules.
  
  (Yes I know you meant that it's a bunch of state elections in a trench coat)
  
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  That's a pretty funny idea for a political cartoon - swing states in a trench coat trying to get into the democracy theater.
  
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Fox News NEVER lies and also this poll is RIGGED and FAKE!

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The Biden campaign has been running polls and focus groups for weeks, and the message has been clear: a felony conviction is a turn-off and a dealbreaker for some meaningful number of voters

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- Yeah, but enough of a turn-off that they will actively vote for Biden when the time comes, and not just sit it out or cast a third party protest vote?
  
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  To me these polls were NOT important because of the swing to Biden. They were important due to the swing in important issues. To 68% of those surveyed the most important issue was "the Preservation of Democracy". This tells me that people are taking the totally insane Trump ranting seriously and all Biden really has to do is let Trump be Trump. Trump can't win losing independents.
  
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- In the moment, sure. We'll see how much people care about his conviction when its four months in the rear view mirror and "Hunter Biden Newest Dick Picks" bombard the latest media cycle.
  
  But maybe - just maybe - the Dems will see prosecuting high ranking conservative crooks as a boon rather than a hazard as they run into the next election cycle. Maybe someone will have the bright idea to bring federal charges against Ken Paxton or Ron DeSantis or even Elon Musk.
  
  Or maybe not. Maybe we'll just scratch Trump off as "Uniquely Prosecutable" and never do this again.
  
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  Polls don't predict the future. They are a photo of the time they were taken.
  
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Trump will be furious to find out.

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if the electoral college is close that's almost certainly a landslide for trump in the college.

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Run Michelle instead

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But in reality it's closer to 80-20 it's just a shit ton of people don't vote.

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- Funny how the silent majority always agrees with the current speaker
  
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- Rigged comment
  
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  Rigged song
  
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