How much faith do you put in political polling? How closely do the results of important political elections match the predictions put out by pollsters and pundits? That’s what’s on a lot of voters’ minds as, once again, Donald Trump beat expectations and predictions, winning the presidency by a wider margin than polls predicted.
Al Jazeera notes that it appears that pollsters undercounted and under-weighted Trump support just as they seemed to have done in the 2016 presidential election. “Yet eventually, Trump cruised to a comfortable victory, defying most polls,” wrote Shola Lawal. One wonders if the personal liberal bias found in academia is also present among professional pollsters.
That leftist tilt in media is beyond dispute. And in the more leftist outlets such as National Public Radio, the bias is so stark as to be laughable. At the cost of his job, NPR veteran editor Uri Berliner found that there was not a single registered Republican of the 87 reporters and editors in NPR’s D.C. offices.
Election prognosticator Allan Lichtman, a historian, got a lot of media attention this presidential cycle as he usually does. Lichtman, a liberal, has a system for predicting the results of elections based on what he calls 13 “keys” to the White House. While he has correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidential elections, his record took a hit in 2024 when he confidently predicted a Kamala Harris victory.
Leftist podcaster Cenk Uygur of the show The Young Turks castigated Lichtman during an appearance both of them made on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored.” During the heated exchange, Uygur told Lichtman his “keys were absurd,” and that he got it all wrong. Lichtmann reacted immediately, yelling that he was “not wrong!” and that he, Lichttman, had more support than Uygur from online fans.
From there, it devolved into a teen-girl cat fight, complete with pointing fingers and huffing and puffing. Collin Rugg has some fun with it on X/Twitter:
So did Rugg’s followers:
Yes, yes, Liberacrat, I do enjoy it.
https://x.com/Wall_St_Custo/status/1859019608835187084
