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Are Pollsters Gaslighting Voters?
Could the 2020 presidential race be much closer than “experts” are telling us?
If this election season were a movie, it would look a lot like one we rented four years ago.
Once again, experts have given a litany of reasons why Donald Trump can’t possibly win the White House: shifting state demographics; suburban white women fed up with his sexist antics; people of color fed up with his racist antics; his botched handling of the pandemic; and an economy thrashed by lockdowns.
Once again, Trump started off double digits behind in the polls with a seemingly impossible chance of closing the gap. Once again his opponent’s formidable lead has evaporated, and they’re fighting to stay outside the margin of error to best the Orange Menace.
Polling experts tell us it’s natural for the gap to narrow as Election Day nears and undecideds slip off the fence. But is that really what’s happening this year?
A handful of rogue pollsters have claimed throughout the 2020 election season that this race has always been closer than most polls — specifically, the ones relied upon by mainstream media — have been telling us. These fringe “experts” are among the very few who came even close to projecting a Trump win in 2016.
