The fucking Times. It follows up yesterday's awful poll with another. That they even asked this question is evidence of the bias--the agenda--in their poll. Who made age an "issue"? The credulous Times falling into the right-wing's projection. This is not journalism. Shameful.
@jeffjarvis So, this is the same poll as yesterday; they are just slowly releasing answers over time and harping on their favorite tune: “Biden is old.” I’d like to point out a big flaw in their poll beyond the chosen questions.
Look at the % of people they polled by population density: 24% city, 41% suburb, 35% rural. The actual population density in America: 31% urban, 55% suburban, 14% rural. They are over-representing rural voters by almost 3 to 1 in this poll. It doesn’t appear they corrected for this at all.
Also, 35% of their respondents are from the “South” region, only 20% from the northeast. Although they don’t specify exactly what that means, this doesn’t appear to be anywhere close to an even distribution.
Finally, 66% of their respondents were white. White people are 57.8% of the population according to the latest census.
In summary, this poll HEAVILY over represents southern rural white voters.
NY Times, did you ask your random voters whether Trump is too insane, doddering, racist, sexist, criminal, traitorous, hateful to be effective as President? And why are the people you picture both white? This is not a poll. It is your agenda. This is not journalism. Shame.
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equally brutal, and I think worth mentioning, is the ease at which people accept and process this, BUY it if you will. Yeah, the Times are complete assholes for doing this...but what does it say about people when it works?🤔
@jeffjarvis Of course, the Times again buried the lead. This was in the same article & should have been in the headline & 1st paragraph: “Overall, voters generally express warmer views about Mr. Biden than Mr. Trump. Fifty-one percent of registered voters said the president had the personality and temperament to be president, compared with 41 percent who said the same about Mr. Trump. ” I suspect this will be close to final popular vote tally in November. Will Electoral College be in sync?
I guess some people think I should consider voting for a well documented serial lying, pussy-grabbing, secret document stealing, criminal that believes he is above all US laws?
And these people are serious in that belief that everyone should consider the Orange Shit Stain for President of the United States?
Good luck with that. But also realize that #Trump will do away with all media except those under his complete control if he gets elected.
@jeffjarvis What shocks me is they never think to just ask the obvious followup: if Biden is too old, given that Trump will be the age he is today before the official time period his reign is supposed to end, won't Trump be also too old to vote in? Especially since Trump is already showing massive mental deterioration...
Even if you take the whole thing at face value, you still just have to throw age out of the equation because it's not really a choice here.
@jeffjarvis The president alone doesn’t run everything. It’s who you appoint, and surround yourself with. We know who is gunning to be with TFG and we know who surrounds Biden. To focus on one person is missing the forest for the trees.
@jeffjarvis just had lunch with my mom, five years older than Biden. Her model of how the world works is seriously broken and her attention span is tiny. I'm 67 and I'm too old to run.
@jeffjarvis I disagree. Age is a very real issue. Biden does Democrats a real disservice in not offering a younger choice. A Biden/Trump rematch is not in the best interests of the country.
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I think if we are going to mention age... the NYT is 172 years old. That's a bit old to be a news source right?
We should let the younger news sources do the job and the NYT should retire.
Remember, corporations are people too, it's time for a NYT retirement potluck.
I've seen so many bizarre headlines in regards to polls. Enough to make me sound like a conspiracy theorist and say the polls were intentionally designed to get the reported results.
@jeffjarvis@jinglepostman Incredibly bad journalism. Not polling, per se, but the play, the ageism in the coverage, lack of focus on what Trump and Biden are actually doing and saying on the trail (look elsewhere for reporting on Trump's crazy talk) and the reality of the issues. And so much more. No accountability. We need a corps of public editors of diverse perspectives and a platform for ongoing debate about media performance.
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