{"id":1682271,"date":"2022-10-10T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682271"},"modified":"2022-10-10T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:50:23","slug":"gop-voters-are-being-undercounted-again-independent-pollster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-voters-are-being-undercounted-again-independent-pollster\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Voters Are Being Undercounted Again: Independent Pollster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-voters-are-being-undercounted-again-independent-pollster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A top independent pollster suggested that Republican voters are being undercounted in surveys ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group\u2019s founder and its senior strategist and pollster, said Republicans might not be inclined to reveal their political views to pollsters following President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s speech on Sept. 1 targeting \u201cMAGA Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese submerged voters aren\u2019t answering polls, they aren\u2019t putting stickers on their cars, or signs in their yard\u2014they\u2019re not even posting on social media,\u201d Cahaly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trafalgar-pollster-signals-republican-voters-will-be-undercounted-again-ahead-of-midterms\">said<\/a> in a Daily Wire podcast. \u201cThey are underwater. They\u2019re not saying a word to anybody until election day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more,\u00a0Cahaly asserted that voters should not trust mainstream polls in the coming weeks, noting that previous elections undercounted Republicans and favored Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolls have two purposes,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re either to reflect the electorate, or they\u2019re to affect the electorate\u2014and too many of these media and university-based polls are designed to affect the electorate and are trying to create a false narrative quite often when there\u2019s not one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cahaly made reference to the Biden speech in Philadelphia that accused supporters of former President Donald Trump of being a threat to U.S. institutions, coming just a few weeks after the FBI\u2019s raid of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort. While he spoke in front of a dark red-lit background flanked by two Marines, Biden said Trump and his followers \u201crepresent an extremism that threatens the very foundations\u201d of the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Prior Polls <\/p>\n<p>During the 2020 election cycle, there were \u201chidden voters\u201d that were undercounted, Cahaly wrote on Twitter several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09\/GettyImages-1420018787-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Sept. 1, 2022. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow [the] Biden administration has essentially classified \u2018MAGA Republicans\u2019 as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top independent pollster suggested that Republican voters are being undercounted in surveys ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group\u2019s founder and its senior strategist and pollster, said Republicans might not be inclined to reveal their political views to pollsters following President Joe Biden\u2019s speech on Sept. 1 targeting \u201cMAGA Republicans.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}