The "Surprise!"Karen Handel Win Looks A Lot Like Another Recent Election - Granite Grok

The “Surprise!”Karen Handel Win Looks A Lot Like Another Recent Election

smirking-trumpThe pundits are flabbergasted by the Republican turnout for Karen Handel in Georgia. They don’t know what to make of it.

I do.

They made it about Trump, and the Trump voters showed up. They don’t always, like in small town New Hampshire for a relatively meaningless state House race, but they do turn out for elections where Trump is directly challenged, even when he’s not running.

They also, more often than not, are keeping that support to themselves for all the obvious reasons. Democrat domestic terrorists and their ideological inquisitors make them reluctant to speak out publicly, privately, or at all. Statistician Dr. Matt Briggs and I discussed this phenomenon before the presidential election last November, and I think the same dynamics apply today.

The polling will not accurately represent pro-Trump voters or many Republican-leaning voters in any election where the Left is invoking Trump because while Democrats have silenced these voters publicly the secret ballot protects them from that scrutiny. The polling can’t be relied on and theDemocrats and the media did this to themselves.

Here’s my chat with Dr. Briggs. Take note of all the parallels between the way the Left treated candidate Reagan almost 40 years ago and the way they treat Trump or any Republican today.

Dr. Matt Briggs (Ph.D. is statistics) and I discuss how the press treated Reagan in 1980 and how it may have affected polling before that election, then compare that to the press impact on potential Trump voters and polling in 2016.

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