Ignore the polls
Robert Laurie , Bio and Archives--October 27, 2016
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We keep telling you: "Ignore the polls." As we get closer to election day, it appears that they're tightening, but many of them still show a looming blowout in favor of Hillary Clinton. For Trump supporters, especially a reluctant one, that could engender the notion that there's no point in voting. After all, if Trump's going to lose "bigly," why bother heading to the polls?
...And, per Rand Paul, that's precisely what some of the polls are designed to do.
He appeared yesterday on West Virginia's "The Tom Roten Morning Show" and was asked about Trump's claims that things are "rigged." While he declined to specifically agree with Trump, Senator Paul did say that yes, the polls are “designed to suppress turnout."
"You know, I think sometimes polling is done to dampen election turnout so when Trump says the thing's rigged, I'm not sure exactly what he means and I'm not sure I always agree with him, but I do think that when we say over and over someone can't win that is a form of rigging in the sense that it is designed to suppress turnout." "In Kentucky, in our governor's race in 2015, the media said over and over and over again the Democrats were up 8 points. The hope I think was to depress Republican turnout and these were coming from liberal newspapers in our state. And turns out the Republicans won by 8. They were off like by 16 — 14, 16 points. And but I think some of that is intentional. The polls are put out, you know to make it either look closer than it is or to make it look like Democrats have a better chance. And I think it's done by design to try to dampen turnout."
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