- Biden’s Empty Victory
"Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies.
So how do they remain credible after 2020?
A republic is not just a nation of laws.
It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions.
...But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in America has gone terribly wrong.
Many of the mainstream pre-election polls predicted that Donald Trump would lose in a landslide.
He did not — to the shock of a host of propagandists.
...What do all these power players — big polling, big money, big tech, and big media — have in common other than their partisanship and their powerful reach?
- One, they stereotypically represent a virtue-signaling coastal elite that feels its own moral superiority allows it to destroy its own professional standards.
- Two, they worry little about popular pushback because they assume that their money, loaded surveys, and Internet and media cartels create, rather than reflect, public opinion.
- Three, while these elite cadres have enormous resources, they still are relatively unpopular.
Despite being outspent 2 to 1, pronounced doomed by pollsters, often censored on social media, and demonized in print and on television, Trump was neck and neck with Biden — a fact that a few days ago was deemed impossible...Read all.
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