Republicans have issued polls showing their candidates doing better than more objective polls. Then, when some of them lose, they won’t accept the results. It’s a scam and I can see it coming.
Same with not counting the mail-in votes. Republicans complain about votes not being counted by election day but they block efforts to count them earlier.
Republicans flood the zone with pro-GOP polls, bending models in their direction https://t.co/IIjGrYhaJy
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) November 1, 2022
At this point, we basically have normal pollsters being like "don't trust our polls, they probably suck" and then Republican pollsters being like "our raw data wasn't good enough, so we just added some pretend Republicans to make things look better."
— Ben Yelin (@byelin) November 1, 2022
Not a great place to be! https://t.co/YUARLgybj5
Ignore the polls — even the political writers have begun acknowledging that the GOP is flooding the zone with crap polls to influence the RCP/538, while many of the traditional polling entities simply aren’t polling these midterms. pic.twitter.com/m5KW1wB2MN
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) November 3, 2022
Highly respected Marist has dropped 3 Senate polls:
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 4, 2022
Fetterman 51-45
Kelly 50-47
Warnock 48-48, up 4 w/RVs
These polls continue the pattern of respected independent polls being 4-8 pts more Dem than the recent flood of bullshit GOP polls. 2/https://t.co/7n6ykbIzVC
This is what I’ve been talking about. More than half the polls being used on aggregate sites are GOP – the rest are split between Dems/Independent
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) October 30, 2022
Flooding the zone is an attempt at voter suppression, and it’s a built-in excuse to accuse Dems of cheating if/when they’re wrong. https://t.co/us0qwfqbzl
1) The majority of polls released in the past week are Republican-commissioned and designed to (falsely) show a GOP landslide. There are always a handful of these “fake polls” and they just get averaged out, but now they’re dominating the averages. So why is the GOP doing this?
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) October 31, 2022
A "GOP flooding the zone w/shit polls" update.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 5, 2022
In GA last 5 "A" rated independent polls have Warnock up an average of 3.2 pts, and he leads in every poll.
In October Rs have dropped 15 different polls by *10* different pollsters. The last 5 of these have Walker up 4.4 pts. 1/
"Last week, four Republican-leaning firms…showed Dr. Mehmet Oz with a lead. This week, four conventional pollsters have shown John Fetterman tied or ahead."
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 5, 2022
Gosh, that's some whacky polling-average trutherism coming from [checks notes] Nate Cohnhttps://t.co/2ZrnFE1r5A
Sad! 