One poll last week that showed the Republicans ahead in the generic midterm ballot, the entire media spent all week hyping it for ratings.
Six new polls this week that all show the Democrats ahead or tied in the generic midterm ballot, the media somehow forgets to report it
There were also multiple polls last week that had the Democrats ahead in the generic midterm ballot, and the media forgot to report on those as well. It just cherry picked the one poll that had the Republicans significantly ahead, and pretended the other polls didn’t happen.
So the generic midterm ballot polls last were essentially tied and the trend last week was flat, but the media falsely reported it as trending strongly Republican.
The trend this week is a small but nearly unanimous shift putting the Democrats ahead. The media is ignoring it.
Because the media couldn’t spin the generic midterm ballot polls in the Republicans’ favor this week, it moved on and found some new polls from individual races that show significant Republican gains, while ignoring other new polls in those same races that show no such gains.
Should you even care about the polls at this point? Yes, in the sense that they tell us we’re gaining momentum and can win, and that the work we’re doing on campaign volunteering may be paying off. No, in the sense that we keep working these two weeks no matter the poll numbers.
But can we take a minute and acknowledge the extraordinary extent to which the entire mainstream media has spent the past week and a half intentionally misleading us about what the latest polls even say? Whatever you think of the polls, the media is *lying* to us about the polls.