>>12323890>Four years of polling data that shows he's not popular was called "fake news." Now it's being used as "proof" of fraud. Which is it?There are various different types of polls and pollsters. A poll is basically a question and the result is dependent on various other statistical and psychological factors along with the methodology and the respondents input itself. Pollsters are entities and they can be biased along with their employees, obviously. No one is truly objective in this life and every entity is funded by someone.
Gallup and Pew are two of the most famous, oldest and least biased pollsters out there, and they are often quoted abroad as well. They are not making 'polls' ie they don't ask people whom are they going to vote for president, they have given up on this contentious question long ago. Gallup does follow the approval rating of a sitting president, and it had measured the lowest and highest records of Trump too. Stating that Trump has a high approval rating atm per Gallup is just stating a fact.
Pew also creates various interesting studies related to voter preferences eg how do they vote, what are they priorities, what are they political leaning, etc... but they aren't doing the trivial 'polls' like many other companies.
So, if someone told you that they don't believe 'polls' than they most likely were talking about the presidential preference polls of likely/registered voters. And apparently, these polls and pollsters were indeed quite a bit wrong this year, more so than in 2016.
But Gallup and Pew were never complicit in these 'findings' in the past 4 years, so there's that...
