They’re finally starting to admit it

Dear Palmer Report readers,

We all understand what a dark era we're heading into. Journalists will be prosecuted. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. Advertising networks can't be counted on. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight, because someone has to.

In that regard we're looking to start funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens or how dark things get. We've launched a reader supported fund, and we've already raised $3360 and counting. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can contribute here. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Bill Palmer
Palmer Report

Of all the reasons why 2024 polling has been such a joke, the biggest has been the sheer number of polls that claim Donald Trump is winning with youth voters. Joe Biden utterly dominated over Trump with youth voters in 2020. And since that time Roe v. Wade has become a huge issue with youth voters, meaning Biden is likely even more ahead with that demographic.

So why do polls keep showing that Trump is ahead of Biden with youth voters for 2024? In short, they’re wrong. They’re wildly, laughably wrong. Worse, these pollsters intuitively know that their results are wrong, yet they’ve been refusing to fix their flawed sampling methods.

Why? You’d have to ask them. But the general rule these days is that any given poll gets more media coverage and credibility if it’s laughably wrong, than if it’s reasonably correct. The media loves nothing more than to take a shocking poll that can’t possibly be accurate, and hype it as if it were 100% correct – even while ignoring all the polls that say the opposite. So pollsters have a strong motivation these days to get it wrong.

But now the media is finally starting to admit that President Biden is actually going to dominate with “Gen Z” youth voters:

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Now that the media is finally admitting that Biden is well ahead of Trump with youth voters, pollsters will no longer have any motivation to produce faulty “shocking” results showing Trump ahead with youth voters. So hopefully we’ll now see the polls shift in a more accurate direction. It shouldn’t work this way, but it often does.

Dear Palmer Report readers,

We all understand what a dark era we're heading into. Journalists will be prosecuted. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. Advertising networks can't be counted on. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight, because someone has to.

In that regard we're looking to start funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens or how dark things get. We've launched a reader supported fund, and we've already raised $3360 and counting. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can contribute here. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Bill Palmer
Palmer Report