If you want to know why polling is always so heavy in Hillary’s favor, I suggest you read a report from Center for Public Integrity study, that reveals how much certain groups contribute to each candidate. It came as no surprise to find out that the lamestream press donated 92% for Hillary and 8% for Trump. But moving on to the polling companies, we see much of the same. Some polling companies partner with newspapers. Those newspapers average 92% for Hillary. How about the polling companies themselves?
The Center for Public Integrity concluded:
“Conventional journalistic wisdom holds that reporters and editors are referees on politics’ playing field — bastions of neutrality who mustn’t root for Team Red or Team Blue, either in word or deed. But during this decidedly unconventional election season, during which “the media”has itself become a prominent storyline, several hundred news professionals have aligned themselves with Clinton or Trump by personally donating money to one or the other.”
NBC/Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey employees gave 96% of their contributions to democrats. at $646,000 and just 4% or $27,500 to republican candidates.
The current chief executive officer of Survey Monkey, Zander Lurie, contributed $72,200 to Clinton campaign and $30,700 to the Democratic National Committee in 2016. (Notably, its previous CEO, David Goldberg, who died suddenly in May 2015, was a Republican donor, giving $15,000 to the Rubio campaign and also donating to Paul Ryan and Carly Fiorina, among others.)
– Survey Monkey’s senior vice president of global sales & strategies contributed $65,000 to Clinton campaign and $30,700 to the DNC in 2016.
ABC News Tracking
ABC’s partner in polling is Abt-SRBI. Abt-SRBI gave 100% of all contributions to democrats.
Reuters/IPSOS
From Heatstreet:
A search of FEC records shows that employees at IPSOS, Reuters’ polling partner, made over 55 individual contributions to the Clinton campaign in this election cycle totaling approximately $5,000. Also:
– IPSOS employees have made approximately $23,000 in total contributions since 2004 – about 75 percent of that going to Democratic candidates, committees and causes.
– No contributions are reported to Republican candidates, committees or causes.
Is it any wonder Hillary leads in their polls?