Why a Red Wave Is Suddenly Possible
After months of warning you about the GOP’s chronic overconfidence problem, now I’m feeling overconfident! Inasmuch as I will be giving a speech at my alma mater, Cornell University, the day after the election, I’m about to do something very stupid: make an election prediction.
My reasoning is, here we are, three weeks from the election, and this week, two major polls, Harvard Harris and Times Sienna, suddenly show Republicans gaining ground. This triggered a primordial memory from the 1980 election, the first presidential race I paid attention to.
That’s when I discovered the iron rule of election polls: They will never, ever be wrong in favor of Republicans. Another is that polls will generally show the Democrat winning until the election gets close — and the media finally start telling the truth.
Thus, for example, after being hectored for most of 1980 that Ronald Reagan was headed for another Goldwater-style fiasco, here’s the sort of thing a teenager would have read in The New York Times weeks before he won a landslide victory against President Jimmy Carter, taking 489 electoral college votes to Carter’s 49.
1980
— Sept. 15, 1980: “Reagan and Carter Even In Washington Post Poll”
— Sept. 21, 1980 “Allowing for the margin of error, the polls indicate a virtual dead heat between Mr.Carter and Mr. Reagan”
In mid-September, the Times’ Anthony Lewis painted a vivid picture of Reagan’s coming annihilation, citing a bunch of state polls:
— “A recent New York Times poll of registered likely voters [in New York] showed Carter leading Reagan, 44 to 38.”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 47; CARTER: 44
— In Washington state, “a poll for the Carter campaign put the president ahead by 3 points against Reagan.”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 50; CARTER: 37
— In Illinois, a “poll for Carter’s campaign put him ahead by 5 points.”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 50; CARTER 48.
— In Connecticut, a “Hartford Courant poll showed: Reagan 36, Carter 35.”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 48; CARTER: 39
A month later, the Times produced yet more polls of gloom:
— Oct. 9, 1980 headline: “Texas Looming As A Close Battle Between President And Reagan”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 55%; CARTER: 41%
— Oct. 16, 1980, headline: “Ohio Race Expected To Be Close As Labor Mobilizes For President”
ACTUAL RESULT: REAGAN: 52, CARTER 41
And then Reagan won more electoral college votes than any non-incumbent in history. You’d think the polls would have picked up on the fact that history was about to be made. Nope!
This is not just an enjoyable stroll down memory lane, though it is that. It is to remind Republican-leaning voters, even in seemingly blue strongholds like New York, Oregon and Washington, to please vote. Because, win or lose, one thing polls will never do is overestimate a Republican’s chances.
1976
— Sept. 23, Roper Poll: Carter leads Gerald Ford 46%-29%.
ACTUAL RESULT: Jimmy Carter won by 2 percentage points.
1984
— Oct. 15, The New York Daily News poll: Reagan 45%; Walter Mondale 41%.
ACTUAL RESULT: Reagan beat Mondale by nearly 20 points, 58.8% to 40%.
1988
— Oct. 5, New York Times/CBS News Poll: George H.W. Bush 45%; Michael Dukakis 43%.
ACTUAL RESULT: Bush 53.4%; Dukakis 45.6%.
1992
Oct. 18, Newsweek poll: Bill Clinton 46%; GHW Bush 31%
ACTUAL RESULT: Clinton: 43%; GHW Bush: 37.7%
1996
— Oct. 22, The New York Times/CBS News Poll: Clinton 55%; Bob Dole 33%.
ACTUAL RESULT: Clinton 49%; Dole 40%.
2000
— Oct. 3, The New York Times/CBS News Poll: Al Gore 45%; George W. Bush 39%.
ACTUAL RESULT: Bush 47.9%; Gore 48.4%.
For some mysterious reason, election polls were pretty accurate in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections. Perhaps pollsters had gotten better. Maybe they noticed that people sometimes do look back at their forecasts. Or it could be that Republicans were running such losers those years that it would be nearly impossible for anyone to underestimate their performance.
But, boy, did the pollsters make up for any inadvertent honesty when Donald Trump ran in 2016!
2016
The Times had the best pollsters in the business and sophisticated computer modeling. Based on their high-tech number-crunching, on Oct. 18, the paper reported: “Hillary has a 91% chance to win.” On Election Day, the forecasters were a little less exuberant, announcing that Hillary had a mere 85% chance of winning. A Trump victory, the Times said, was as likely as “an NFL kicker miss[ing] a 37-yard field goal.”
We know how that turned out.
2020
On Election Day 2020, Times’s forecasters exulted that Joe Biden was ahead “by more than 8 points nationwide — the largest lead a candidate has held in the final polls since Bill Clinton in 1996.”
He won by 4 points.
Maybe it’s not a wild and reckless prediction, but the news this week suggests that the media are slowly edging up to the truth, and that Republicans could be on track to well outperform the polls.
This would be a good year for it. The Senate map, combined with five GOPs retiring, make 2022 a tough year for Republicans, who are defending seats in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and North Carolina, and trying to flip at least one state out of Nevada, Arizona and Georgia for a bare majority.
But Republicans winning requires that voters not be discouraged by the polls and remember to vote, even when the media tell you it’s hopeless, like in New York, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Mostly, I just want to wake up the morning after the election and find out Dr. Mehmet Oz has won in Pennsylvania and defeated that slovenly, goatee-sporting Michael Moore-wannabe, John Fetterman, who is passionate about only two things: not bathing and releasing vicious murderers. And that Lee Zeldin has beaten the demented, “release all the criminals!” New York governor, Kathy Hochul, with the crazy “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” makeup.
Then, the world will make sense again.
Anne Coulter says: ‘On Election Day 2020, Times’s forecasters exulted that Joe Biden was ahead “by more than 8 points nationwide — the largest lead a candidate has held in the final polls since Bill Clinton in 1996.”
He won by 4 points’.
I disagree. Trump won 2020 in a landslide.
I doubt that the coming election will occur but if it does the Democrats will be wiped out; OR, the Democrats’ fraudulent stealing of the election will be immediately obvious.
The U.S. will go on provoking nuclear wars with Russia, Iran, and/or China, and looting the world economy, all for Israel and the Jewish-dominated ruling class. I don’t see that as the world making much more sense than now.
God Bless you Ann Coulter!
What the polls are showing is irrelevant. While Republicans have been predicting wins for many weeks now, they seem to have forgotten the gorilla in the room: Democrats lie, cheat and steal elections. They are very good at it. They have so many wondrous ways to cheat.
And, I don’t think you’re qualified to make any kind of predictions. You’re in capable of understanding the election fraud that was laid out so simply and clearly that a kindergartner could understand it in the movie 2000 Mules.
Zelensky instigates conflict in Far East https://thehill.com/policy/international/3678773-zelensky-urges-world-leaders-to-recognize-japans-claim-to-disputed-russian-occupied-islands/
A GOP victory will mean (a) anti-Semitic ‘hate speech’ laws, (b) ‘red flag’ laws for Whites, (c) ‘path to citizenship’ for all illegals in the US.
It’s better for Whites if Whites don’t support the GOP and the GOP loses had has to pretend to oppose the DNC.
Whites will get less than nothing from a GOP ‘red wave’.
I believe Stalin was talking about 21st century US when he said who decided the winners of election.
Evil-faced Jewelry-Jew “Goodman” is very bad-
tempered until not all of Americans follow his
and his tribal bros’ narrativ, will & world view!
https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/zionsville-school-board-candidate-under-fire-for-comments-on-nazis/
He also does not accept the statement of the
wrongdoer that Nazis were “victims of brain-
washing”. After all, Goodman and his ilk know
exactly what brainwashing is – and what they
themselves do is this under no circumstances!
The Jews have perfected this pathological trick of
self-victimization for moral blackmail as one of the
most vicious, emotionally abusive instrument for
exercising power over us, it appears in the spotless
white dress of “innocence” to deceive others about
their own moral depravity and malicious intentions.
For years and years, the unimaginative and pathetically cringe way all politicians of the Western World have been too afraid to show any originality in their dress has bugged me, every single one of them wearing the exact same boring-beyond-all-belief shirt, tie and jacket combo.
As do all the media whores who flock around them, as does anyone in an office.
It’s worse than a cult. It’s even more depressing to see this monotony cross continents into Asia and the Middle East. Why? It’s inspiration-less mind-rot!
And I don’t mean they shouldn’t be smart. Why don’t at least ONE of them take some creativity from how gentlemen dressed in the Victorian era? It’s incredible how many different ways of looking extremely smart and fashionable British MP’s in that time looked. Just check out any old pictures and films of the time.
Why don’t they bring this style back, or imitate it? It would please everyone! The designers would be able to express themselves, as would the men themselves, the media and especially the public would love it.
It goes against all rational sense that modern man is imprisoned in the same fashion for near 80 years. Has anything similar happened before, anywhere, ever?
Zero change in style?
I believe it must be a conspiracy that’s enforcing this monotonous boredom in menswear. They want them all looking the same so it’s easier for them to all think the same.
Yes, a ‘conspiracy theory’, but the alternative is this has just happened naturally? Like liberal democracy was the end of political history, these boring suits and ties is the end of historical fashion? Seriously? People believe this?
So for years I’m waiting for someone with originality to come along and change this, yet what do we get, this mutant Fetterman thing, and the hoody is just to draw attention to the giant growth in his neck.
Then there is Zelenski and his evil gang of Jewish psychopaths, in their combats and tee-shirts butchering the luckless people of Ukraine.
I see the Fetterfreak has had the tattoos on his arm covered over, does anyone know what it originally said? You wonder what needs to be covered up in this era, what you couldn’t rely on the leftist media to cover for you?
Hooray if Republicans win the next US election . . all while the zio-elitist ruling class continues to coalesce their power in the dark.
Guess it beats the alternative . . kinda LOL