Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Don't believe Rueters/Ipsos poll Date:   11/27/2019 1:11:54 PM

This particular outlier in growing support for impeachment has one little problem.....at the bottom and buried in the text it revealed its sample breakdown from it's ~1,100 participants: 528 Democrats, 394 Republicans, and 111 Independents.  In other words they polled more Democrats than Republicans and Independents combined.  Did the same stupid thing in 2016 when they concluded Hillary was going to crush Trump.  So why do they do this?  Simple answer is that polls are not used to accurately gauge sentiment, it's to influence it and make news.  Which is why these faulty polls get wall to wall coverage when others that say something they don't like get ignored.  And these numbers get included by the aggregators like RCP or 528 thereby skewing the results away from reality.  And of course 8 in 10 Democrats favored impeachment.....what a shocker.