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The Perils of Believing the Pollsters Every October

Everyone absorbing the elitist media spin on the midterm elections cannot avoid the swirling symphony of doom for the Republicans. Conventional wisdom suggests a good night for Democrats, and that’s before you look at the president’s dreadful approval rating. Polls can be tricky: one can disapprove of Trump and still vote the Republican party line.

All this doom might be accurate–or it might turn out like 2016. Hillary Clinton had a 98% chance of winning, they said. Then-“CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley suppressed his delight as he claimed, “Time is running out for Donald Trump … No candidate down this far, this late, has ever recovered.” Over on ABC, Jonathan Karl echoed: “Donald Trump is down 17 points among women. You do not get elected … if you are down 17 points among women.”

When all of the media’s polls turned out to look like Fake News, Democrats immediately suspected the election had been stolen and then spent four years denying reality.

So it was amazing when the front page of The New York Times on Oct. 15 boasted new research on the president’s second-term statements about his loss........

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