Pre-election polls encourage blind acceptance of election returns

One of the latest polls that broadcast pundits and news anchors quoted this week is an NBC-Marist poll touting that democrat candidates are gaining ground in the ten closest senate races. The question is whether voters should be influenced by polls when deciding how they should cast their ballot in the fast approaching midterm election.

For anyone who has spent time learning the ropes of conducting surveys and studies (quantitative research is a prerequisite for most graduate degrees) it's time to address the art of statistics. The terminology "art" carries more fact than pollsters care to admit because the science behind polling is largely psychology-based despite all the mathematical theories and quotients required to formulate the survey models. It is essential to recognize how poll questions are engineered¹ to reflect the data mining of potential voters, all in order to receive the answers that best suit a political agenda, which actually includes all subjects from medicine to the environment because every subject surveyed boils down to politics. Not all polling organizations set out to obtain a desired result by developing surveys with expected outcomes and, frankly, many opinion gatherers hardly realize how much they inject their own perspective into the questions they craft. It occurs all too naturally because bias induces individuals and even polling colleges to expect others to agree with their assumed "right" thinking, which is generally not at all correct, just prejudicially elitist. No matter what the subject matter to be studied, it is nearly impossible for a polling agency to create a survey with questions that will not glean results favoring their own partiality, and this is more than rampant in media-run polls. All one has to do is check the educational and professional history of those conducting the surveys and the indoctrinated bias will become evident. Most often that prejudice inclines toward the progressive mindset.

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Not only are many polls skewed to reflect liberal results, some by manipulating the sample pool to query more democrats, young non-voters or even illegal residents (the all-inclusive "potential voter" category) but also by drafting questions that require a liberally defined answer even from a conservative individual. Case in point as to how polling results influence speeches on the trump for candidates... Hillary Clinton was just in Massachusetts providing her convivial support for democrat gubernatorial candidate, Martha Coakley. As much as some conservative talk show hosts blasted Clinton's comments regarding businesses being inconsequential to job creation, "Don't let anybody, don't let anybody tell you that, ah, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs..." she didn't make this statement without due consideration. Most of the democrat candidates are straight-up politicians and/or attorneys like Coakley that know nothing of job creation, all they understand is government and that all businesspeople, corporate or small enterprise, must be demonized as plutocrats who want to destroy workers of every stripe and income level.

Media and political research institutions, most of which have a progressive bent, apply data manipulation to churn out polls that continue to bolster democrat gains

Apply her comments to the Georgia senate race where David Perdue is under fire for, of all things, being a successful businessman, i.e. someone who knows how to build the economy from the ground up one job at a time. And his opponent is nothing more than another community organizer and the scion of a political family, albeit Michelle Nunn's father was popular while in office. Office holders are meant to represent the voters not a political hegemony of government programs that bankroll nonprofits, like ACORN, Planned Parenthood or Points of Light where Nunn was CEO, and kill real jobs. Put Clinton's speech into the context of deriding every conservative candidate, whether Joni Ernst, a veteran and family farmer, or Pat Roberts, who stood with Senator Mike Lee on the Senate floor to block Obamacare funding. If, despite the former Secretary of State's remarks, the argument for Robert's opponent Greg Orman is that he is a business magnate, best check his credentials again as one who benefited heavily from the president's crony subsidies. Average media and political research institutions, most of which have a progressive bent, apply data manipulation to churn out polls that continue to bolster democrat gains leading to the public's mute acquiescence to dubious election results. By feeding voters with a perceived increase of democrat popularity before Election Day, there will be little to no backlash when voter fraud makes certain the democrat candidate eeks out a win. The final draw is this, polls are not run to assist a voter in making a good or proper choice, they are basically information tools that lend themselves more to propaganda than to fact checking. That's a task that must be done on our own. Research the candidates and make a truly informed decision. Polls aren't good for much else besides feeding a news story and encouraging blind acceptance of election returns. ¹ Kristenev, A. Dru (2014) "Eenie-meenie-miney-mo... Vote counting in the new millennium," Pg. 127, "Why media and "experts" are unreliable sources," Pg. 164; Pay Attention!! ...your life, family and nation depend on it; ChangingWind