Let's try a poll that the media isn't covering.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/11/lets-try-poll-that-media-isnt-covering.html

When was the last time you saw a poll in which 75% of the respondents agreed on something?

If you can stomach the news about yet another poll, this one provides some very interesting information into what Americans are thinking. It's a Marist poll, and one of the reasons we haven't really seen much from this particular polling group this fall is that their data and their numbers aren't matching the narrative that the media wants to create around Presidential politics, basically, that we have a neck and neck race, and that the problems and issues brought to the table by Trump, namely criminal indictments, totalitarian fascist rhetoric and the possibility of running from prison, along with the general incompetence he displayed when he was President, can be balanced out by President Biden's age, the economy, inflation, the price of gas and a host of other things over which he has little to no control.

Marist polls, which have had the President's job approval ratings in the mid-40% range for most of the time that the others have claimed it is lower, and which continue to show the President in the lead nationally, and in all of the battleground states, have all but disappeared from the composite lists. But there, in this piece from an interesting source, a hair style and beauty advice website called "Loved by Curls," is the poll data, an explanation from the executive of Marist polls, and some interesting social media comments which don't necessarily reflect the poll response, or have anything to do with it, really, except to serve as clickbait. One of the social media comments said, "Republicans have no common sense," in reference to their attempts to shut the government down to get the budget spending cuts, and the tax cuts for the rich, that they want.

I can go along with that, since it's exactly how I feel.

[TwilightZone]

1. I see links to Marist quite frequently.

Their polls are done in association with PBS and NPR and they're sometimes listed as such.

538 uses them in their aggregate.

Do a search for Marist at the following link and they'll all show up.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

One reason that it may not seem like they get as much press is that they're not done as frequently as some other polls.

[lees1975]

2. Their polls seem to cover longer periods of time of collection of data.

And, almost universally, they paint a different picture than the scattered media-owned polls do. They're more consistent with Gallup.