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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:55 PM Aug 2020

Trump just said that you can't poll "registered voters" because too many of them are dead.

(He is giving a speech right now in Scranton)





Daniel Dale
@ddale8

Trump says you can't do fair polls of registered voters, only likely voters, because many registered voters have died.
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Trump just said that you can't poll "registered voters" because too many of them are dead. (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Aug 2020 OP
try to make sense of that folks... Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
I don't doubt this at all Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #2
He's giving a speech in Scranton right now. Mrs. Overall Aug 2020 #4
OK. Thanks. Cirque du So-What Aug 2020 #8
How many Tommyknockers will show up? whistler162 Aug 2020 #10
Then... Newest Reality Aug 2020 #3
How DO I stop laughing????? AnnaLee Aug 2020 #5
Is there anyone more ignorant and deceitful than this foo? n/tl malaise Aug 2020 #6
He is truly the dumbest man alive. DrToast Aug 2020 #7
One of his great accomplishments! DBoon Aug 2020 #9
I Think He's Taking a Stance Against Necrophilia Stallion Aug 2020 #11
Cool. Likely voters show him losing too jorgevlorgan Aug 2020 #12
How many dead registered voters jls4561 Aug 2020 #13
Reception is pretty good. Bantamfancier Aug 2020 #20
Nuckin' futz. Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #14
A moron...a total moron. SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #15
If they answer the phone, they are probably not dead. LisaL Aug 2020 #16
So fraudulent voters survive? torius Aug 2020 #17
Who do the polls that he references "poll"? keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #18
"These polls are biased against me!" chriscan64 Aug 2020 #19
I Think Only A Few Pollsters.... ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #21
It is true that polling of registered voters leads to uncertain and sometimes poor results. former9thward Aug 2020 #22
Only the ones he's counting on RainCaster Aug 2020 #23
He's studied "fuzzy" logic all night for his degree in Backseat Driver Aug 2020 #24

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)
2. I don't doubt this at all
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:58 PM
Aug 2020

It’d be nice to know the circumstances surrounding this statement, however. Tweet? Presser? Conversation with Nixon’s WH portrait?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. Then...
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 04:59 PM
Aug 2020

Then he sighed, smiled, waved and congratulated himself in the mirror again:

"Ah, ME! Me is the bestest bigly since ever! I'll show those not mes! Thank you Trump!"

Stallion

(6,476 posts)
11. I Think He's Taking a Stance Against Necrophilia
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 05:04 PM
Aug 2020

can't poll dead people


....and I applaud him for that!!!

jls4561

(1,260 posts)
13. How many dead registered voters
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 05:05 PM
Aug 2020

are buried with their phones? Can you get cell coverage 6 feet under, or do you have to run a landline?

keithbvadu2

(36,886 posts)
18. Who do the polls that he references "poll"?
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 05:17 PM
Aug 2020

Who do the polls that he references "poll"?

He talks of mystery polls that favor himself.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
21. I Think Only A Few Pollsters....
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 05:50 PM
Aug 2020

...include the dead people who have responded in their dataset!
The rest decided not to listen to the opinions of the dead people they talk to.

former9thward

(32,068 posts)
22. It is true that polling of registered voters leads to uncertain and sometimes poor results.
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 05:51 PM
Aug 2020

Not because they are dead but because people who are registered and don't vote get polled. It is very expensive to poll likely voters so polling firms don't start polling likely voters until sometime after Labor Day. Polls tend to tighten then because just those who are likely to vote are asked their opinions. Any experienced campaign organization knows this.

Backseat Driver

(4,394 posts)
24. He's studied "fuzzy" logic all night for his degree in
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 06:01 PM
Aug 2020

intellectual quantum mathematics...SUFFER those responding to unfair polls to come bigly unto me." So much suffering...so much suffering...I can't get a wink of sleep...so much suffering..(humms: something's, a quiz I think, coming in the night, oh yeah)...if they only had perfect health, posture, gait, hair like mine...in jail, in jail, in jail...



Here's the set up: Push #1 for Trump; Push #2 - if, in regard to the best choice #1, you plan to lie, vote fraudulently, or for somebody else; Push #3 if you are deceased.

Here's the problem: How many registered deceased do I need to win?



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