This is a handy thing to remember:
Shall I let you in on something, my #EndAusterityNow friends? Twitter isn't the same as public opinion at large. pic.twitter.com/k1o1p6iact
— Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) June 20, 2015
We over/underestimate the difference between online opinion and public opinion at our peril. Not that this will stop anybody from doing that, of course. Probably not even me.
Democrats have a new message in the 2014 race for the Senate: Don’t trust the polls.
The party is stoking skepticism in the final stretch of the midterm campaign, providing a mirror image of conservative complaints in 2012 about “skewed” polls in the presidential race between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.
Democrats who do not want their party faithful to lose hope — particularly in a midterm election that will be largely decided on voter turnout — are taking aim at the pollsters, arguing that they are underestimating the party’s chances in November.
First off, let me give the Democrats all the response they really deserve to this: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid maintained that his party’s candidates lead “virtually all over the country,” rejecting polls that undermine that claim as compromised by bad methodology.
“We’re ahead virtually all over the country,” Reid replied during a Senate briefing when asked about a Pew poll showing that the current political environment is more hostile towards Democrats than in 2010. “I don’t need to run through the states with you, but, we’re doing okay.”
Reid said recent polls aren’t reliable because pollsters can’t get in touch with a lot of voters who use cellphones.
