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Top Pollster: GOP Voters ‘Virtually Impossible to Poll’

Polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden’s speech that attacked “MAGA Republicans” earlier this month, according to a top independent pollster.

Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote on Sept. 17 that Biden’s speech will make it more difficult to survey or even estimate Trump-aligned voters than in prior years. He noted that in 2016, a number of presidential polls and predictions regarding Trump and opponent Hillary Clinton proved to be inaccurate.

“In 2016, Trump supporters were called ‘Deplorables’ and other unflattering names,” Cahaly said on Twitter. “This was a major contributor to the ‘shy Trump voter’ phenomenon that ‘most’ polling missed, which resulted in a major loss in public confidence for polling flowing the election.”

In 2020, “people who supported Trump or espoused conservative values out of step with ‘Woke’ culture found themselves being ‘canceled’ or ‘doxed,’” he continued.

“This led to ‘hidden voters’ that ‘most’ polling under counted, therefore Trump support in key battleground states exceeded expectations. Now [the] Biden administration has essentially classified ‘MAGA Republicans’ as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on them,” the pollster wrote. “This move has created a new type of voter that will be even harder to poll or even estimate.”

He was referring to Biden’s Sept. 1 speech that targeted “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to U.S. institutions, just weeks after the FBI raided Trump’s Florida residence. Speaking in front of a red backdrop and flanked by two Marines, Biden claimed Trump and his supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

Describing this new group as “submerged voters,” Cahaly wrote that these people “aren’t putting stickers on their cars, signs in their yards, posting their opinions, or even answering polls.”

“At this point, I think it’s fair to say that Biden’s pursuit of and attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ has created an army of voters who will be virtually impossible to poll (even for us) and more difficult still to estimate,” he wrote.

For 2022, GOP voter turnout will most likely be higher than what the polls and other election models are showing, Cahaly said. Polls, including those carried out by his Trafalgar Group, are underestimating the effect of the “submerged voter” phenomenon, the pollster concluded.

His prediction comes after The New York Times’ chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, warned that mainstream polling is likely overstating support for Democrats.

“The apparent Democratic strength in Wisconsin and elsewhere is a mirage—an artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases in survey research,” Cohn wrote earlier this month. “If the polls are wrong yet again, it will not be hard to explain. Most pollsters haven’t made significant methodological changes since the last election.”

READ 10 COMMENTS
  • dmann84ng says:

    “shy trump voter?” hahaha! no, i am not shy. i just wont talk to people who voice their hatred of me and my way of life!

  • mogul264 says:

    With so many ‘mad hatter’ liberals willing to assault people ‘outed’ by conservative-haters who reveal home addresses, gettint ‘swatted’, etc, it’s no wonder conservatives are reticent about giving pollsters answers. Especially grating was the reveal of conservative SCOTUS Justices’ addresses, PLUS the unconsionable refusal of DOJ ot prosecute those who gathered at those home areas!

  • Cavalryman says:

    ALERT! It’s these poles that give the cheating electronic programmers the weighted values to your vote. When one vote for a Republican in California is counted as .4 for the democrat and .6 for the Republican, how do you think that happened.

    The best SHORT-TERM solution is not to answer any poles or if you want to answer them then, give them bull sh1t, then go to the poles in person on the day of the election to overwhelm their matrix.

  • Phil Barberg says:

    The poles are really good and accurate. Isn’t that right president Hilary Clinton!! Poles tend to influence voter turn out making people think that the winner has already been determined. Poles are a useless waste of money. The Democrats will order a pole and tell them to pole only Democrats.

    • James Daniel says:

      Exactly. The only poll that counts is the one on election day. Anything else is a distraction that is easily manipulated by adjusting the group being polled or by subtlely manipulating the language of the questions.

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