Eric Boehlert: Press keeps pushing bogus voter focus groups

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Eric Boehlert
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Jan 26, 2022
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“One of the so-called Biden supporters in the Times focus group complained that Democrats (!) are trying to change election laws because they can’t win fair contests on their own.”

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Press keeps pushing bogus voter focus groups
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5:51 PM · Jan 26, 2022

Looking for additional ways to pile on President Joe Biden, more news outlets have turned to focus groups in recent weeks. Rounding up tiny numbers of voters and treating their utterances as sacrosanct, the media aggressively push the idea that “moderate” and “independent” voters have universally turned on Biden, even though the findings from the bull sessions are not statistically relevant.

The poorly thought out focus group featured on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” included a grand total of six people who were identified as three Biden voters and three Trump voters. But all of them sounded like Trump voters.

The Biden voters interviewed by CBS were completely unsupportive of him, blaming the president for “Covid fatigue” and misleading the public about the virus. “I think that things are just as bad as they were when the pandemic started,” stressed one “Biden voter.” Added another: “COVID has not improved. Biden has not, you know, stuck to any of his promises.” The third Biden voter blamed him for the high price of bacon today.

In CBS’s aired focus group, not one person uttered a word of support for the president, who in the latest Fox News poll has a 47 percent approval rating.

At the New York Times, its recent focus group consisted of 14 “independent” voters, none of whom think Biden can improve the economy, even though a record 6.4 million new jobs were created during his first term. One of the so-called Biden supporters complained that Democrats (!) are trying to change election laws because they can’t win fair contests on their own.

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