One reason polls were not reliable in 2016 and are less likely to be so in 2020 is what is sometimes called Trump’s “Whisper Network.” This is what Bret Stephens called in an opinion piece for the New York Times — “inner flashes of sympathy, frequently tipping into support at the ballot box, for President Trump.”
An academic study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that what it termed “secret voters” supported then candidate Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton 54 percent to 27 percent in 2016. This causes almost all polls to be “severely underweighting the scale of Trump’s support.”
Stephens sees some other reasons more people voted for Trump that admitted so to pollsters. His hunch is that, “For every voter who pulled the lever for Trump out of sympathy for his views, how many others did so out of disdain for the army of snickering moralists (at the time including me) telling them that a vote for Trump was unpardonable?”
One has to wonder if Democrats are not cutting their own political throats by showing so little respect for Trump voters. Stephens is right that “whisper networks ought to have no place in the land of the free.”
Watch the video to learn what Tim Pool says is the “specific morality” that is likely to play the biggest role in deciding who is our President after the 2020 election.
