About that Fox News poll claiming 51% of voters want Trump out

Beware of polls this far from election day. Their purpose is not to reflect public opinion, but to influence it. Polls tend to be more accurate closer to election day, except perhaps for any CNN poll. TD

Tony Branco

Monica Showalter  "We all know there's such a thing as a push poll. We also know that a heckuva lot of pollsters get their results wrong.

"Nevertheless, here's an unwelcome Fox News poll result being reported as news and being flashed at least at first, in red letters at the center of the page on the Drudge Report:

Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday. . . .

 . . . "It's undoubtedly a lot of randomly selected registered voters, even if it's not 51%, and that's likely a reflection of the wall-to-wall negative media coverage President Trump has gotten over this impeachment whistleblower issue, which I've seen on television news broadcasts." . . .

. . . "All the same, what's Fox News's track record on polls? 

"Not good, actually. Here is their 2016 pre-election poll, which forecast Hillary Clinton soundly beating Donald Trump by four percentage points, which in electionworld, is a landslide:

"If you want to follow pollsters, the best one to follow is IBD/TIPP, which has a long record of calling election results right, even against the herd. They too are reporting troubles for Trump but not as strongly as this Fox poll.  There are others who swear by Rasmussen, so a look at what they've got is worth a click, too. 

"The bad thing with this is that it will embolden Democrats to keep pressing forward to remove President Trump from office, even on just obstruction grounds since they aren't doing any 'impeachment inquiry' honestly or fairly to all sides. They've gagged Republicans from asking questions and their refusal to hold a real impeachment inquiry is nothing more than a bid to keep subpoena powers from Republicans." . . .