Don’t fall for this

I don’t want you to fall for this. Donald Trump’s poll numbers are terrible, and they are particularly lousy on immigration, his signature issue. But you might not know that listening to some members of the media. This is not an article about the media, it’s more about the polls. You have to know something about Polling.

Many of them — the polls — are houses of mirrors, causing one to gaze at results that are upside down in nature. If someone wants to obtain a specific type of answer in a poll, they can do it by asking specific questions. These questions are called leading questions, which may be why you’ve heard recently that Donald Trump‘s numbers on immigration are peachy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let me demonstrate to you clearly and concisely what I’m talking about. So, say you get a phone call, and the phone call’s from a pollster asking you a question and the question is, “do you agree that mass murderers who are also illegal immigrants should be deported?”

I don’t know about you, but I would say yes. That can be taken as an affirmation of Donald Trump‘s horrible immigration policies. What I’m saying is that if the questions don’t go deep enough, the truth will not be uncovered. Believe me, I know this; I’ve had experience with Polling. Now take this question: “Do you think that innocent people who have done nothing wrong but are immigrants should be disappeared off the streets and shipped to a jail in another country known for their torturous handling of prisoners?”

I’m sure most people would say no, and so they have, but many polls don’t ask a question such as that. For some, it’s all style, no substance. The question looks pretty: should immigrants who are murderers be deported? Why, of course. And that’s what the media parrots back.

But if questions don’t go any deeper than that, then one really can’t tell what people are thinking. The polls that HAVE gone deeper show that the American people disapprove of what Trump has been doing as it relates to vanishing people off the streets. So next time a poll comes out, look at it closely, study the methodology, and most of all, look carefully, if you can at the questions asked. Do not allow yourselves to gaze upon answers that maybe upside down in nature.