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Remember the Kid Rock poll? Nobody ever heard of these guys, and they are completely private and anonymous. Doesn't stop them from spreading 
fake news.
People can't stop saying that mainstream polls are fake, or biased, or not transparent- despite none of those things actually being true. The presidential polls in 2016 performed just fine- and by some measures better than the 2012 polls. Truth is true and stuff.
But here is one for you. This is an actual fake poll, that is actually responsible for twisting perceptions. It's actually designed and publicized by political groups who want to lie to you, to make you think the things they want you to think.
Enjoy, and give our boy Nate Silver a click, bitch.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fake-polls-are-a-real-problem/
"Is Kid Rock leading the U.S. Senate race in Michigan? A story like that is essentially designed to go viral, and that’s exactly what happened when Delphi Analytica released a poll fielded from July 14 to July 18. Republican Kid Rock earned 30 percent to Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s 26 percent. A sitting U.S. senator was losing to a man who sang the lyric, “If I was president of the good ol’ USA, you know I’d turn our churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.”
"There was just one problem: Nobody knew if the poll was real. Delphi Analytica’s website came online July 6, mere weeks before the Kid Rock poll was supposedly conducted. The pollster had basically no fingerprint on the web."
fake news.People can't stop saying that mainstream polls are fake, or biased, or not transparent- despite none of those things actually being true. The presidential polls in 2016 performed just fine- and by some measures better than the 2012 polls. Truth is true and stuff.
But here is one for you. This is an actual fake poll, that is actually responsible for twisting perceptions. It's actually designed and publicized by political groups who want to lie to you, to make you think the things they want you to think.
Enjoy, and give our boy Nate Silver a click, bitch.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fake-polls-are-a-real-problem/
"Is Kid Rock leading the U.S. Senate race in Michigan? A story like that is essentially designed to go viral, and that’s exactly what happened when Delphi Analytica released a poll fielded from July 14 to July 18. Republican Kid Rock earned 30 percent to Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s 26 percent. A sitting U.S. senator was losing to a man who sang the lyric, “If I was president of the good ol’ USA, you know I’d turn our churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.”
"There was just one problem: Nobody knew if the poll was real. Delphi Analytica’s website came online July 6, mere weeks before the Kid Rock poll was supposedly conducted. The pollster had basically no fingerprint on the web."
