Friday's Frayed Absurdities: The Fox News Poll Plumbs New Depths as JustStopOil Searches for Tay-Tay's Jet
Ok, so, here’s what pollsters this week want you to believe:
Trump leads Biden by 50-32 in the traditional swing state of Iowa;
Trump is polling within 9% of Biden in New York State, one of the bluest of blue states;
Trump now leads Biden in Minnesota, the only state won by Walter Mondale in 1984, and is tied in Virginia, which has been a reliable blue state throughout this century;
But the new Fox News poll claims Biden leads Trump by 1% nationally, and also hilariously claims Biden suddenly leads by 50-48 among rural voters!
You just cannot make this stuff up, folks, but the pollsters damn sure can. That rural voter finding by the Fox poll proves it is nothing more than just another in a long line of Fox polls mocked up to create a news story rather than reflect public attitudes. Trump simply cannot simultaneously be polling in the mid-40s among Latino voters, in the 20s among Black voters, up by 20 points among non-college graduate voters, and be trailing in the rural heartland of the country, or be in a dead heat nationally with Biden. These are statistical impossibilities.