Midterm Polling: Republicans Doing Better, Because Pollsters Changing Who They Ask

Jim McLaughlin, the president of the McLaughlin & Associates poll, is fed up.

He told Newsmax on October 10 that major polling firms are intentionally “trying to drive down Republican support” in the November midterm elections. He claimed that a vast oversampling of Democrats in mainstream election surveys is intentional. “They’re trying to drive down Republican support both in the electorate, because you’re not going to show up if your candidates going to lose, and they’re trying to dry up money,” he stated. “Just like we get this biased mainstream media news coverage, their polls are biased.”

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Jim McLaughlin, the president of the McLaughlin & Associates poll, is fed up.

He told Newsmax on October 10 that major polling firms are intentionally “trying to drive down Republican support” in the November midterm elections. He claimed that a vast oversampling of Democrats in mainstream election surveys is intentional. “They’re trying to drive down Republican support both in the electorate, because you’re not going to show up if your candidates going to lose, and they’re trying to dry up money,” he stated. “Just like we get this biased mainstream media news coverage, their polls are biased.”