Nice to see Joe Scarborough ripping the New York Times over their crappy, misleading polls.
"Wait, John Heilemann. There is more. People are calling saying this is a reaction to one poll. You go go back and look at the tape. We do this every time when this poll comes. It's always an outlier and the New York Times always gets 15 or 16 articles out of them that everybody rushes to because it says 'Earth ends at 5:00.'"
"NPR has found some of these voters that said, you know, a voter for Biden before, but wait. This guy, we checked the voting rolls. He has never voted! Not just the people in the surveys but people the New York Times quoted in their article. 'Here is one of many people we interviewed who is disillusioned and voting for Trump.' No record of him voting."
Heilemann said he wasn't going to "carry water" for the Times or the methodology of this poll. "I keep going back to the thing I try to say every time we talk about these things. I know you know this. What are the polls showing us directionally about the race?"
Scarborough brushed him off. "I'm focusing on the New York Times is actively shaping the election cycles where this poll comes out on a Sunday and on Monday, people go, oh -- I heard it. I'm going, don't be so stupid and why we are doing this. Hold on. What I hear is after the Siena polls coming out, every time, everything that Joe Biden has done since the State of the Union address the money he has put out and all of the campaigning is for naught," he said.
"No, it's not. No, it's not. There is one poll that is wildly skewed every time and it does shape -- if it's a New York Times poll versus a Morning Consult poll and the New York Times amplifies it 15, 17, times, it warps reality and everybody responds to that in the media, and in the political world."
Well, yes. My inbox was filling every day this week with despairing Dems (who really should know better) convinced Biden was going to lose. (He isn't.)
I'll tell you what I tell everyone: I'll panic when Simon Rosenberg tells me to panic. Saves me a lot of angst!
