Here’s more good polling data for Joe Biden that the media will ignore
We had to endure a month of November in which the entire media spent the entire time hyping Joe Biden’s worst poll numbers while ignoring his best poll numbers, in the name of chasing the scary and thus ratings-friendly narrative that Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump in 2024. Then four national polls came out in a row that had Biden ahead, and the media realized it couldn’t keep up the illusion that Biden is losing anymore – and suddenly the media doesn’t want to talk much about polls anymore.
But even though the media has dropped talk of polling like a hot potato now that the polls are saying something that’s not good for driving ratings, the polls still exist. And frankly, ignoring the polls entirely is as bad of an idea as taking every new poll seriously. You don’t throw out useful data wholesale, just because some of that data is skewed, and because the media keeps lying about what the data says.
To that end, a new Harvard Youth Poll now says that Biden is ahead of Trump with youth voters by a whopping twenty-four points. This isn’t surprising. Democrats always dominate with youth voters by a massive margin. Biden beat Trump in 2020 with youth voters by a massive margin. The notion that “Biden took a certain position on Israel-Hamas and now he’s lost the youth vote” is just laugh out loud silly. There should almost be a law against saying something that stupid with a straight face.
Yet for that entire month of November, the entire media kept insisting that Biden had lost the youth vote, and that the polls showed Trump ahead with young voters. This was, obviously, never within a million miles of being true – for the same reason you know the sky is blue and not yellow.
Now that there’s new polling data to prove that Biden is indeed way ahead with youth voters, will the media cover this poll? One can hope, but it seems doubtful. The problem is that when new data tells you what you already knew, it’s not seen as newsworthy, and thus doesn’t get much in the way of headlines or airtime. When new data tells you what you already knew, and shoots down the false narrative that the media has spent the past month making bank on, the media is even less likely to want to cover it.
