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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4630713" data-attributes="member: 66082">Those polls are bad polls because they are non scientific.But my best guess is that Trump is conflating actual, scientific polls -- like the two I noted above -- with non-scientific, Internet polls which, among other methodological flaws, allow a single person to cast as many votes as they like.Breitbart, a strongly pro-Trump &quot;news&quot; site, conducts just such a poll. According to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/" target="_blank">its most recent results</a>, more than 87% of respondents said that Trump won the debate. (Who are these people? Do they represent an accurate sample of the electorate? We have no way of knowing!) There&#039;s a similar sort of &quot;poll&quot; at the bottom of <a href="https://www.al.com/politics/2020/09/poll-who-won-the-first-presidential-debate-92920-how-did-biden-trump-do.html" target="_blank">this AL.com article on the debate</a>. (Of the 369,000 respondents, 52% said Trump won the debate while 48% chose Biden.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4630713, member: 66082"] Those polls are bad polls because they are non scientific. But my best guess is that Trump is conflating actual, scientific polls -- like the two I noted above -- with non-scientific, Internet polls which, among other methodological flaws, allow a single person to cast as many votes as they like. Breitbart, a strongly pro-Trump "news" site, conducts just such a poll. According to [URL='https://www.breitbart.com/']its most recent results[/URL], more than 87% of respondents said that Trump won the debate. (Who are these people? Do they represent an accurate sample of the electorate? We have no way of knowing!) There's a similar sort of "poll" at the bottom of [URL='https://www.al.com/politics/2020/09/poll-who-won-the-first-presidential-debate-92920-how-did-biden-trump-do.html']this AL.com article on the debate[/URL]. (Of the 369,000 respondents, 52% said Trump won the debate while 48% chose Biden.) [/QUOTE]

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