Bogus poling is partially to blame for panic after Brexit, time for Trump and his team to demand ban on pollsters who defraud the public

Bogus poling is partially to blame for panic after Brexit, time for Trump and his team to demand ban on pollsters who defraud the public

By Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ

A day before Brexit a number of pollsters were predicting a large win for the “Remain” vote. Some pollsters were claiming that the “Remain” vote is leading by as much as 10%. Bloomberg wrote that probability of Brexit is only 25% and probability of “remain in EU” was 75%. (I wonder if Michael Bloomberg, himself, relied on his analysis and which positions did he take prior to Brexit?) The markets relied on this bogus polling and it led to market panic which we saw on Friday.

The same bogus polling is happening in the US. There are multiple ways bogus polling can influence the public. It can cause market panic and it can disenfranchise and demoralize voters.

As I wrote yesterday, we’ve seen bogus polling coming from ABC/WashPost. According to Gallop, in May Democratic party registration was only 1% higher than Republican. In June it was only 3% higher. ABC polled only 24% Republicans and 36% democrats. That is a difference of 12%. This is clearly a fraudulent polling aimed at demoralizing Trump voters.

Other pollsters don’t even disclose the percentages of Democrats and Republicans in their surveys. Further, even ones who disclose the percentages and they are slightly better than ABC, don’t give us any tools to verify if those are real results or made up results.

ABC/Wash Post polling as well as other polling appears to be an attack on Trump and it is time for Trump to fight back.

I believe that Donald Trump and and members of his team should appear on as many networks as possible disclosing to the public bogus polling and demanding that the networks do not report the results of pollsters who are misleading the public. Additionally, it will help Trump a lot if he starts doing internal polling and starts reporting the results. Considering over-polling of Democrats the true results should show Clinton and Trump either being tied or Trump ahead, particularly after Brexit.

Further, exposure of fraudulent polling will show other pollsters that they better clean up their act or they will be exposed, banned from the networks and averages and will lose their livelihood.

Further, Trump, his campaign manager, Paul Manaford, his aide, Steve Miller and GOP strategist, Boris Epshteyn, should demand that Larry Sabato, who runs Real Clear Politics averages, remove from those averages all polls, which oversample Democrats, which do not provide data on sampling or cannot verify their results.

If Sabato, who is an establishment Republican, refuses to clean up his averages, his political composite should be renamed from Real Clear Politics to Real Crooked Politics.