Pollster Mark Penn, in an op-ed at The Hill says one thing that’s quite correct:
You don’t need polls to see the America you live in. You need polls to understand the part of America you don’t know, don’t see, and don’t understand.
There is considerable art in crafting polling questions. They can be constructed to reveal, confirm biases, or even conceal. What the polls presently reveal is that President Trump’s approval is holding firm at around 43%, several points above where it stood a year ago while his disapproval rate fluctuates from between 51% and 54%, significantly lower than it was a year ago.
The polls do not reveal Americans’ views on illegal immigration or international trade because the pollsters aren’t asking those questions.
I think the pollsters live in the same bubble as the MSM and I think Mark Penn has just crossed a red line and damaged his employability.
“There is considerable art in crafting polling questions. They can be constructed to reveal, confirm biases, or even conceal.â€
Polling data was released today on illegal immigration. Americans were asked “Don’t you agree that more illegal immigration should be allowed, for Dreamers desperate to heroically forge a a better life, for themselves and their adorable doe eyed children, as defenders of liberty in our military, doctors, cancer researchers, and just all round swell people, and disagree with those who would cruelly deny them this opportunity like the miserable no good racists, xenophobes and haters who oppose immigration? Yes or no.