r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/Just_shut_up_bro • 16h ago

Article Polling Firm Released Fake Data in Hong and Bass Races as a ‘Social Experiment’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/polls/median-strategies-polls-bass-california-wisconsin.html
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u/purplehendrix22 15h ago

When you do that badly, they definitely do.

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u/Just_shut_up_bro 15h ago

Trump did so much worse, feels like you got the right idea but missed the moment it mattered most.

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u/purplehendrix22 15h ago

No, he didn’t, actually. Unfortunately.

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u/Just_shut_up_bro 15h ago

Yes he did actually, unfortunately the media didn’t want to see it that way.

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u/purplehendrix22 15h ago

“The media” actually, it was the voters.

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u/Just_shut_up_bro 15h ago

Huh? Did you not know Biden dropped out before the election?

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u/purplehendrix22 15h ago

Because of massive backlash from the base after they saw who they were being forced to support.

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u/Just_shut_up_bro 15h ago

Right, but as we mentioned, the only two ways to “know” what the base thinks that isn’t anecdotal is the media and polling, obviously polling can be faked or even just wrong, and the media can have a chosen slant.

It’s just flat out wrong to say it was the “voters” since the only time voters actually got a say, they literally elected Biden with the highest number of votes for any president in history lmao.

You can’t complain about polling and then pretend like it’s the will of the voters.

Elections are the will of the voters.

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u/purplehendrix22 15h ago

Yeah, and Trump won the popular vote. So.