Polling in the Midwest: A Web of Deceit
Polls in the Midwest have been showing some pretty wild results lately. Take the Wisconsin primary race for governor, for example. Polls had Francesca Hong leading by 18 to 22 points, but she ended up losing by half a point. This isn't the first time polls have gotten it wrong in the Midwest. In Michigan's Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed led by 10 to 16 points in the polls, but he only won by a single point. It's like the polls are trying to tell us something, but what?
The problem with polling in the Midwest is that it's often rigged to shape public opinion rather than measure it. The corporate media creates polls that are designed to influence rather than predict an outcome. And it's not just the media - many polls are created by or associated with media outlets that have a far-left agenda. They use polling to further their own interests, rather than to inform the public.
Take the example of the 2024 Iowa election. Polls showed President Trump losing to Kamala Harris by three points, but he ended up winning by 13 points. It's clear that the polls were rigged to make it seem like Trump was in trouble. And it's not just Iowa - polls in the Midwest are often deliberately faked to make it seem like certain candidates are gaining popularity. It's a web of deceit, and it's hard to know what to believe.
Pollsters have had decades to reform, but they haven't. It's a choice they made long ago, and it's a choice that's costing us our trust in the democratic process. We need to be careful when looking at polls, and we need to be aware of the biases that are built into them. Only then can we start to get a true picture of what's really going on in the Midwest.