A Fox News poll published last week discovered "record support" for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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The survey found that 51 percent of voters want Trump impeached and removed from office, while just 40 percent of voters do not want the president impeached. The poll showed a significant jump in those who want Trump's impeachment from July. At the time, just 42 percent of voters said they want Trump impeached.
However, according to an analysis by the New York Post, the polling firm that conducted the survey — Braun Research — underrepresented Republicans and Independents, therefore skewing the poll's results.
A more accurate voter representation would have resulted in nearly identical results for pro-impeachment and anti-impeachment support, the Post found.
From the Post:
Princeton, New Jersey, pollster Braun Research, which conducted the survey, noted 48% of its respondents were Democrats. But the actual breakdown of party-affiliation is 31% Democrat, 29% Republican and 38% independent, according to Gallup.
A poll weighted for party affiliation would have concluded that 44.9% favored impeachment and 44.4% opposed it, a Post analysis has concluded.
In response to the poll, which received widespread attention in the media due to the significance of the results...
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1 comment:
NO SHIT Sherlock. i took a statistics class in College and we were taught how Sample size and composition can skew polls. A democratic Pollster will always over represent demonRATS and independents and under represent republicans. Also look at where the polls was conducted not just the state but cities versus rural as well. You can get the poll results you want by Skewing the sample size, composition, location and registered voters versus the general public. before I believe ANY POLL I look at as many of theses factors as I can find before believing the poll. One poll a while ago the people polled were 30+% demon RATS and about 20% each Republicans and Independents. The rest were undecided. What do think the results of that poll were??????
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