{"id":130825,"date":"2022-08-29T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130825"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:24:37","slug":"democrat-controlled-msm-publishing-more-fake-polls-in-2022-than-any-other-election-cycle-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=130825","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Democrat-controlled MSM publishing more fake polls in 2022 than any other election cycle in US history<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Before the October Surprise comes the August-September PSYOP polls<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>By Rajan Laad<br \/>\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For every election cycle, a few months prior to voting day, pollsters release surveys that show Democrats leading with wide margins. The media gleefully amplify these polls.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a recent phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1980,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2508845#.UGBsGqRYswx\">Reagan was trailing Carter<\/a>\u00a0trailing by\u00a08% even in some mid-October polls. Reagan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/carter-reagan-polls\/\">ended up winning<\/a>\u00a0the 1980 general election in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/sam-wang-princeton-election-consortium-poll-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-victory-a7399671.html\">pollsters said with certitude<\/a>\u00a0that Hillary Clinton would be the next president. The New York Times proclaimed she has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2016\/10\/18\/presidential-forecast-updates\/newsletter.html\">91 percent chance<\/a>\u00a0of winning. Trump won that election by a respectable margin in the electoral college.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a02020, Trump was supposed to lose to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-election-landslide.html\">Biden by a landslide<\/a>. In reality, Trump secured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/17\/us\/trump-found-more-than-10-million-new-voters-they-were-not-enough.html\">10 million more votes<\/a>\u00a0than in 2016, despite the media onslaught for four years, Democrat electoral malpractice, and suppression of all anti Biden stories. Trump received\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trumps-736-million-popular-votes-over-7-million-more-any-sitting-president-history-1548742\">7 million more votes<\/a>\u00a0than any sitting president in American history.<\/p>\n<p>We are months before an election and various Democrat mouthpieces are doing the very same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair magazine is claiming that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/08\/maybe-democrats-arent-totally-screwed-in-the-midterms\">Maybe Democrats Aren&#8217;t Totally Screwed<\/a>\u00a0in the midterms. The Atlantic is claiming that the Democrats might\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2022\/08\/democrats-midterms-suburban-voters\/671042\/\">avoid a midterm wipeout<\/a>. The New York Times reports \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/24\/upshot\/midterms-elections-republicans-analysis.html\">growing evidence<\/a>\u00a0against a Republican wave.\u201d\u00a0The Washington Post opines that Democrats are showing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/24\/democrats-special-election-momentum\/\">momentum coming out of special elections<\/a>. NPR is claiming that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/12\/1116745451\/democrats-biden-midterms\">Biden&#8217;s recent wins<\/a>\u00a0could give Democrats a boost heading into November. Even \u2018conservative\u2019 Fox News is claiming that midterms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-column-midterms-looking-much-better-democrats-because-trump\">looking &#8216;much better&#8217; for Democrats<\/a>\u00a0because of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The media is also pushing the narrative that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3594308-what-is-the-dark-brandon-meme-that-has-taken-the-white-house-by-storm\/\">Biden has had a resurgence<\/a>. They are citing Biden\u2019s \u2018legislative accomplishments\u2019 on tech manufacturing, guns, infrastructure, and climate change. They are lauding Biden for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/08\/24\/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-student-loan-relief-for-borrowers-who-need-it-most\/\">canceling $10,000 in student debt for borrowers making under $125,000 per year<\/a>. They are even claiming his poll\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/398117\/biden-job-rating-rises-highest-year.aspx\">numbers are high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1555573538043695104&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2022%2F08%2Fbefore_the_october_surprise_comes_the_augustseptember_psyop_polls.html&amp;sessionId=40bea81280e612bd1dc28d35eb0f70d19508adcd&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=31f0cdc1eaa0f%3A1660602114609&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1555573538043695104\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now for the facts.<\/p>\n<p>None of his \u2018legislative accomplishments\u2019 will have any positive impact on the ground. On the contrary, they are likely to worsen the suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Pardoning student loans is discriminatory to people who have the burden of other kinds of loans such as home loans, vehicle loans, business loans, etc., plus high taxes. These people are unlikely to be pleased with Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The annual\u00a0inflation\u00a0may have dropped marginally but it still remains at a high\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usinflationcalculator.com\/inflation\/current-inflation-rates\/\">8.5 percent<\/a>\u00a0causing the prices of regular items to skyrocket, adding to the struggle of regular Americans. The\u00a0media is claiming that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-democrats-pass-739b-manchin-schumer-boosting-bidens-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>\u00a0addresses inflation, however, experts say it would only reduce\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/analysis-inflation-reduction-act-reduce-annual-inflation-percentage-points\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual inflation by 0.1 percentage point<\/a>\u00a0over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>A recent ABC News\/Ipsos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/sour-views-economy-biden-approval-issues-poll\/story?id=88038637\">poll<\/a>\u00a0shows only 37% of Americans approve of Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the economy while 70%\u00a0thought the economy under Biden had worsened.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are the party of open borders causing an influx of illegal immigrants some among whom are violent criminals, human traffickers, terrorists, and smugglers of\u00a0illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Since Biden took office, over 4.9 million illegal migrants have crossed the southern border. This is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/states\">equivalent of the combined population<\/a>\u00a0of states such as Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, both North and South Dakota, and Biden&#8217;s home state of Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have also shown totalitarian propensities.<\/p>\n<p>They called parents who opposed the teaching of critical race theory in school\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/are-parents-being-tagged-domestic-terrorists-the-fbi-justice\">domestic terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They used COVID-19 to impose lockdowns that destroyed lives not only economically but psychologically. The Democrats advocated vaccine mandates that rendered many jobless. Some who reluctantly took the vaccine to remain employed, are suffering from health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats attempted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-dhs-disinformation-governance-board\">to\u00a0<\/a>set up\u00a0the Orwellian \u2018Disinformation Governance Board\u2019 that sits in judgment of the utterances of regular citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents who will obviously harass the middle class quite likely\u00a0in states that don\u2019t vote Democrat. The same Democrats have no funds to hire\u00a0new Border Patrol agents to protect the border.<\/p>\n<p>The January 6\u00a0Committee exists to persecute political opponents and their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have shown themselves to be out of touch, bragging about expensive electric cars that are hard to recharge.<\/p>\n<p>The situation abroad is catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s withdrawal has made Afghanistan unstable and al-Qaida is once again in control. The media focused on lauding Biden for the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, but what they ignored was the fact that he was living comfortably in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Defense whistleblower report noted that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-actively-investigating-afghan-evacuees-us-flagged-suspected-terrorists-security-threats-wray\">324 of the individuals<\/a>\u00a0the Biden administration evacuated\u00a0from Afghanistan\u00a0and welcomed into the U.S. have appeared on the terror watchlist.<\/p>\n<p>There is a raging war in Ukraine. The Democrats have splurged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/775-million-in-additional-u-s-military-assistance-for-ukraine\/\">$10.6 billion<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/21\/biden-signs-40-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-during-trip-to-asia.html\">pledged $40 billion more<\/a>\u00a0in aid to Ukraine. All\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/05\/13\/rand-paul-ukraine-aid-mcconnell-russia\/9762529002\/\">transparency and accountability<\/a>\u00a0measures were blocked. Recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brianbushard\/2022\/08\/24\/biden-announces-3-billion-ukraine-arms-package-as-war-reaches-six-month-mark\/\">Biden\u00a0announced\u00a0$3 billion<\/a>\u00a0in new\u00a0weapons\u00a0and equipment to\u00a0Ukraine, once again there is no proper tracking of these weapons, let alone the money &#8212; the weapons\u00a0could be sold on the black market and end up in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>There are also considerable tensions between China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing that the Democrats can point to and claim as\u00a0their accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet they focus on the trivial and attempt to project themselves favorably.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect example is the senate race in Pennsylvania which is a microcosm of the entire U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The race is between Republican Dr. Memet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/john-fetterman-signed-pledge-ban-fracking-supports-tens-thousands-pa-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged to ban fracking<\/a>\u00a0which supports thousands of jobs, especially in western Pennsylvania which is the fourth-largest energy producer in America. Fetterman plans to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-senate-candidate-fetterman-says-i-agree-cutting-prison-population-one-third\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release one-third of the state\u2019s prisoners<\/a>\u00a0which will place Pennsylvanians in deep peril. Fetterman suffered a stroke that kept him away from the campaign for three months and now has impaired cognitive abilities.<\/p>\n<p>But the media is focused on Dr. Oz unknowingly using the wrong word to describe a vegetable tray. The polls show\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/pa\/pennsylvania_senate_oz_vs_fetterman-7695.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oz consistently trailing<\/a>\u00a0Fetterman by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PA-crosstabs_Sen-Gov-General_conducted-July-22-26_released-July-28-2022.pdf\">11 percentage points<\/a>. They are even carrying reports that Trump thinks Oz will lose, and obviously, the sources are unnamed.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few polls that the media don\u2019t like to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Axios recently ran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/05\/democrats-unwilling-to-back-biden\">a poll early this month that showed<\/a>\u00a0a startling number of Democrats have been unwilling to support Biden\u2019s re-election in 2024 since he is old and unpopular.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/06\/opinion\/biden-re-election-2024.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0carried a piece urging Biden to step aside in favor of young talent in the Democrat party. The Washington Post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/21\/biden-turns-toward-midterms-he-may-not-be-top-surrogate\/\">ran a column that revealed that few candidates<\/a>\u00a0want\u00a0Biden\u00a0to\u00a0campaign\u00a0for them in their state or district.<\/p>\n<p>Now about those polls.<\/p>\n<p>The goal behind these new polls favoring the Democrats and accompanying the media blitzkrieg is to dispirit the Republican voters and prompt them to skip voting. This is a voter suppression tactic.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is the Democrats were and are behind every major suffering that regular Americans are facing from crime to inflation to dangers from abroad. The voters are unlikely to forget their past and their present.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. representative and Speaker of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingrich360.com\/2022\/08\/19\/the-make-believe-democrat-senate-surge\/\">House\u00a0Newt Gingrich\u00a0(R-GA)<\/a>,who knows a thing or two about politics, wrote \u201cNovember realities are going to be a lot friendlier to Republicans than August news media fantasies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is vote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/company-social-network-community-3502288\/\">Pixabay<\/a>\u00a0\/ Pixabay License<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/before_the_october_surprise_comes_the_augustseptember_psyop_polls.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/before_the_october_surprise_comes_the_augustseptember_psyop_polls.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the October Surprise comes the August-September PSYOP polls By Rajan Laad American Thinker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}