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Intentionally false polling has become a scourge of modern politics. Why the NYTs has joined the competition remains a mystery.

There is one person who has caused Joe Biden more headaches than any of his Republican enemies. That person is the New York Times charlatan polling "guru", Nate Cohn.

Cohn is responsible for the design and results of the monthly Times/Sienna presidential preference poll.

We should ignore the Times' polls and any journalist or news reporter comments about Biden's popularity based on these polls.

As a quantitative research tool, presidential political polls should be predictive of future elections results. However, like all quantitative consumer research, political polling requires a participant group reflective of the actual voting population and rejects any participants not likely to vote.

However, the Times/Sienna polls does the opposite. So as not to be accused of "liberal bias" the Times purposely includes an overly high proportion of low propensity, disengaged voters in its polling groups. Regardless of party affiliation, these "voters" tend to be unknowledgeable about issues and lean MAGA conservative. Cohn clearly admits his results are suspect in his latest NYTs article about the vagaries of political polling.

Because the Times is considered the authority of record for journalists and news reporters across all media, the Times has a greater responsibility to avoid biased polling. Unfortunately, the Times/Sienna results have undermined Biden's support for months and has been the primary data source driving efforts to get one of America's greatest presidents, not to run in Nov. resulting in serious damage to our democracy.

Thousands of lifetime subscribers to the Times have cancelled in disgust in the past 6 months. The Times' leadership pretends the paper is just being "objective" when in fact it's reporting is based on knowingly false data.

As Americans, we will keep pushing the Times to stop supporting Trump and correct its biased polling results. More than the 81 million Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 will be back in Nov.to give him the largest vote total in history.

Merrill Weingrod

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