Fox Uses Doctored Graphic To Give Trump A Fake 55% Approval Rating
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This is what Fox does and the ignorant eat it up
The graphic that was shown on Fox Business makes it appear as if Trump has a 55% approval rating. The graphic cites a poll from Georgetown politics. However, an examination of the poll finds that Trump’s approval rating is not 55%. Fox News made up an approval rating that would make Trump happy.
The real poll shows Trump’s disapproval at 55%
The data from the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service “Battleground Poll” of the 2020 cycle paints a much darker picture for Trump:
– 59% of voters are worried about an economic downturn.
– Trump’s disapproval rating has held at a steady 55%.
– 57% of voters believe that the country is on the wrong track.
It is true that 58% approve of Trump’s performance on the economy, but the rest of polling is all bad news for the president, and nowhere does it say that Donald Trump has an overall 55% approval rating.
The doctored poll is the Trump/Fox News echo chamber
Fox News creates some fake good news to make Trump feel good. Trump retweets that fake good news to give it legitimacy with the nation at large. Fox News and Trump have a symbiotic relationship where they push each other’s false claims to give both the network and the president credibility.
The Fox News audience is shrinking fast. The network’s primetime viewership is 2.4 million, which equals 0.7% of the US population. Fox News is a niche, but Trump depends on that niche as both his source of information and encouragement.
Fox News has created a Trump bubble of feel-good false information that is deluding their viewers, including Trump, into believing that everything is fine. When the bubble bursts, possibly on election day 2020, it is going to be a hard crash into reality for people and a president who have spent more than four years pushing, believing, and creating false information.
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Do you mean that Fox News lies to its viewers?
Oh!
Gosh!
I am s-o-o-o surprised... I am s-o-o-o shocked....
Now this was funny:
"The "Battleground Poll" surveyed 1,000 registered voters considered "likely" to vote in 2020"
Likely to vote ? REALLY ?
Them's the "Important" peoples.
Trump is in the high 40's....he's doing quite well with all the Innuendo crap the Dems are allowed to spew on national TV, as truth ! "Free range Crap" is considered "News" now !
Sure, the 1950's, or at least that's the demographic he's been catering to, those who wish it were the 1950's again, when segregation was legal, when Christians seemed to rule in America unopposed by any other brand of faith, and there weren't any PC expectations so they could call all the "others" by whatever dismissive, ridiculing, offensive names they could think of.
However, Trumps approval rating has never been in the 50's, ever. The majority of Americans have consistently rejected the inept orange clown from day one. The majority of Americans did not vote for him, the majority do not support him, the majority has never supported him, the majority do not approve of him, those are just simple facts, not opinions.
Now it is true that a majority of the poorly educated support Trump. The majority of voters without a high school diploma and a majority of whites without a college degree support Trump, so I suppose he does have some majorities behind him. I've no doubt that the vast majority of self proclaimed Nazi's and KKK members support him, and a majority of those in the south who have vertical family trees support him, but not the majority of Americans.
ya.... I was speaking of a "Year" !
"However, Trumps approval rating has never been in the 50's, ever."
Maybe wait before getting so giddy to rebut ?
I was looking for a way that your statement could be found true instead of the apparent lie it seemed to indicate at first.
I don't Lie.… I just speak !
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I jumped to a conclusion? You're the one who started with the claim that "Trump is in the high 50's", was I not to conclude you meant what you claimed? Was I to wait around till you edited your comment to say "Trump is in the high 40's" which still isn't even true? At best you can say he's in the low 40's.
Where ?
Seriously? You're going with that? I replied to your statement, you then attempted to correct your false statement, though you really didn't make it any less false. Are you saying you didn't "fix" your claim? It's as it was when first posted? Really? Even though my comment directly replied to the original and shows exactly what you said? It seems Trumps refusal to admit he's wrong even when shown definitive proof of his error has rubbed off on some of his followers. Deny, deny, deny...
I attempted NOTHING !
Why are we discussing his I.Q. ?
That sooo Cute !
I think I love you.
Lots of fabrication
Are you sure it's that high
Leg ))))shivers((((( !
Then why didn't Fox post the accurate numbers? Oh and if Trump was so proud of his ratings, WHY did he re-tweet the false #'s?
Am I Fox ?
Did I praise Fox ?
I thought you are all about "Facts".
Was the "Battleground" poll stupid in itself ?
"1,000 registered voters considered "likely" to vote"
"likely" is just a pretty way of saying …… "I don't know" !
I don't know and I don't care.
Did I say you did?
Yes and I note the fact that you failed to address my question.
It wasn't so 'stupid' that Fox and Trump didn't decide to alter it to their own effect.
A critera used by almost every polling company in the country. Why pretend that it disqualifies the data? What poll would Trump use to lie to his sycophants if that criteria disqualified them?
Your just all over the place, to try and justify YOURSELF !
Backatchya:
"It wasn't so 'stupid' that Fox and Trump didn't decide to alter it to their own effect. "
I asked a specific question of you:
Was the "Battleground" poll stupid in itself ?
Why can't you answer it ?
might mess up your bias ?
Was the "Battleground" poll stupid in itself ?
"1,000 registered voters considered "likely" to vote"
"likely" is just a pretty way of saying …… "I don't know" !
I did answer it, you just didn't like my answer.
Why do you insist that I answer your question when you've still failed to answer mine?
No you didn't !
That's worked out soooo well !
Whose "President" again ?
Now that you've shown you know nothing of poll taking, try to dispute anything in the article.
Where ..… Where ?
"I don't know" voters are important to you ?
I don't do "Political Opinion Shows" much, unlike SOME....it seems.
Everyone of them fucks stats to suite them. I should be surprised ?
You know why you don't? It's because you don't understand them or, most likely, you can't stand facts
It's like you don't know me at all !
So your showing me I was right in my original comment #2 ?
Thanks !!!!!!!!!
You can't even read the chart
Incidentally, something I've noticed over many years of following polls. While most of the time most of them have approximately the same results, there's one notable exception: Rasmussen pretty consistently gives more points (approval, favourable) ratings to Republicans over Democrats. (Usually its more extreme than the one posted above).
Just something to keep in mind when looking at polling results.
I did, and I'm still CORRECT in my original comment.
1) That's not a good approval rating.
2) Trump has never been above 46% which is equally bad.
3) Trump is currently at 43.2%, that's not the, "high" 40's.
RCP is an average of ALL the polls....more data means more accuracy. Yes? Yes.
With all the fake stuff that's allowed to be opinionated on in the "News?", and a media that digs into every minutia thingy they can, It's actually GREAT !
"fake stuff"? Examples? Trump is well past 9,000 lies in two years...if it's fake news, it likely came from trump.
Sure !
Did you forget the MASSIVE reporting on the "Russia, Russia, Russia" thingy ?
Trump lied about that too.
Everything else on "Fact Fucked", is irrelevant now !
Hummmmm it, seems like more people disapprove rather than approve and where is that 50 you were talking about
His disapproval rating is currently 52.8%.
Looks like he is doing about the same or better this time in his first term than Obama was.
Let me guess...libs will say his poll numbers were so low because of racism, bigotry, Islamaphobia, etc, etc, etc...
It all predictable.
As is Fox and Trump posting false numbers.
No, it doesn't mean that. Sorry.
The right lost the right to claim the moral high ground when they supported trump, who almost literally has no morals at all.
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Read the damn chart wally
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Sorry, but you personally don't get to determine what rights anyone else has or gets denied.
Sorry, but I didn't say anything about rights in the legal sense, I was talking about morals. As a trump supporter, how can you justify his complete lack of morals, and, at the same time, blasting a politician on the left for a lack of morals? The word, "hypocrite" comes to mind.
I'll just leave that here, for you to think about.
Please supply a direct quote from me proving what you say.
I'll wait.
on the economy?
While President Trump’s overall unfavorable rating has remained steady at 55 percent since he announced his candidacy in 2015, 58 percent of voters approve of the job he has done on the economy.
presidential re-elections are always about the economy. not the drama, not the character assassinations...
as someone once said: "its the economy, stupid"
after that failed coup he is stronger than ever before.
2 yrs from now after more of the public learns the truth about that failed coup attempt?
gonna be tuff to beat trump in 2020 and by tuff, I mean almost impossible
presidential re-elections are always about the economy.
To a large degree.
But the economy might not be doing all that well by the election-- tariffs will become increasing a negative factor as time goes on... to say nothing of the fgact that this tax season many midddle and lower middle class families will start to see that their tax situation is much worse than they had been led to believe (particularly lower deductions they are allowed).
However this election will probably be about healthcare to an increasingly large degree.(That's the main republican Achilles heel-- and its what the smarter dem candidates will primarily focus on in the general election).
not the drama, not the character assassinations...
So by stating that I suppose its safe to assume you believe Trump's tactics won't work this time around?
nah, he will still give them all silly names that stick for the rest of their lives... LOL and by then everyone will know exactly how criminal the left and the past admin were.
people do not side with traitors, people do not believe traitors, and people ignore what traitors say. the only thing people actually like about traitors? watching them fall hard.
that failed coup attempt by the left has made trump stronger than ever before and has only put the left in a much weaker position.
the interesting thing about coup attempts is failure ruins ones entire life more than just a little bit.
abusing the power of govt to take down a duly elected president is only a good idea if ya pull it off.
but it is interesting to watch the left hope for a shitty economy just so they can possibly win.
the left is going to be so buried by legal troubles it will be easy for trump to re-brand their asses.
cheers
One of the times I watched fox "news," they had a banner running across the bottom with a "poll" question, and a number to call to vote in the poll. Is that how this one worked?
fox "news" taking a poll of fox viewers. Who could doubt that that's what the Nation actually thinks?
If fox called anyone, I'm sure they have some sort of "donor" list, everybody else has one. Perfect people to poll.
Doctored? Made up? That's a little dramatic. Fox made their own graphic. There's no evidence they "doctored" someone else's graphic. And it's clearly not a made up number. It's just the wrong number. Looking at the graphic published by the pollster, the number 55 is there for the overall rating. It's just the disapproval rating, not the approval rating. It's looks like a sloppy, but simple, mistake.
Intentionally. In other words they are feeding their viewers a line of shit, AKA lying. And if it wasn't intentional then the people working at Fox are fucking idiots. Pick your poison.
Yep, so either Fox is flat out lying or they are goddamn retards. No good option either way.
A sloppy and simple mistake that only a simpleton would make.
How do you know it was intentional? I find it far more likely that some lazy intern in a hurry made a simple mistake. Doing it intentionally doesn't make much sense when it's so easy to refute/debunk, etc.
A dumb mistake to be sure, but I'm not in a position to judge the totality of the person or people who made the mistake. Looking at the graphic, I myself was momentarily drawn to the 55 as a positive number just because it's in blue and the 41 is in red. We commonly associate red with negative (e.g. stop, danger). I wouldn't be surprised if someone was in a hurry and made the same mistake.
I wouldn't care unless the network was sticking with it, but they're not. They corrected the mistake on air.
Fox News addresses correction on Fox Business approval rating graphic reposted by President Trump
That came after.
That has never stopped fat ass.
Yet Fox didn't correct their 'simple mistake' by posting the accurate numbers on screen or reporting it to their viewers. They're happy to let the 'simple mistake' stand and so is Trump.
Unless you watch the networks 24/7, you have no idea what put on screen. But apparently you didn't watch the video I linked to because they reported the actual number to the viewers right there.
Are you claiming that the image in the seed is false?
I note that 'what put on screen' wasn't a graphic of the CORRECT numbers.
No, I never said anything like that. You made the claim that they did not correct the mistake by posting the accurate numbers on screen, but you have no evidence to support your claim, and unless you have been watching the network, 24/7 there is no way you could know. You just made it up.
That has no connection to the comment you are quoting. I repeat that you claimed they did not correct the mistake by reporting it to their viewers. I gave you a link to a video clip of them doing exactly that. You either won't watch it or are deliberately ignoring it.
Don't know what you think you did but you didn't
Yes, they 'corrected' it during ANTOHER show on Fox News Network, NOT the viewers of the Fox Business Network AND they didn't put up a graphic illustrating the CORRECT numbers in either Network.
I didn't what?
have any links
Ah! I see! You now want to distinguish between Fox News and Fox Business as completely different things. That's fine, though you did not make any such distinction initially between Fox News and Fox Business Channel. What you said was,
You didn't specify FNC versus FBC. You felt free to just refer to them as "Fox" with no qualifier. I expect this is because you assume the same prejudices under the same organization and leadership on both channels.
But since you have now decided it matters, here's a link to a Fox Business broadcast where they also made a correction. The clip starts off being about Julian Assange, but about 1:03 into the clip, they mention - on the air - the mistake they made and they correct the record.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces up to 5 years in prison
So again, the FBC did correct the record, and without investigating it, you made the claim that they did not. You just made it up.
And again, you clearly don't watch the network enough to catch the correction and certainly not enough to be able say authoritatively that they never showed a corrected graphic. So like I said, you're just making it up.
And in any event, whenever any news outlet publishes a flawed graphic, they tend to issue a correction, but from what I have seen, they aren't going to go to the trouble of creating a whole new graphic.
I've supplied two links in this conversation. One is @6.1.1 and the other is @6.2.8
Is there something else you're looking for? Maybe if you have a point, you should state it clearly.
I'm not the one that 'wants' the distinction, Fox is. One need only READ the headline of YOUR link to see that. The commentator in the video made the 'distinction' too. Funny that you insist that I didn't watch the video and then whine about my use of the FACTS provided by that very video.
Now you provide another link in which Fox Business posts the Assange graphic throughout. You claim that they need not make their correction in a graphic. Fine. The least the should do is make the correction in a SEPERATE statement. As they say in the media, they 'buried the headline'. Well done. Keep digging. Maybe you'll find where Trump corrected the numbers. I wouldn't hold my breath during your search if I were you.
There have been studies done on the graphics used by Fox and other visual media outlets. Many people have the TV on low in the background and JUST read the graphics. Many times Fox posts a graphic that says one thing and actually speak something else. 'Fair and Balanced' canard is a perfect example. They use graphics for their own effect.
And once again we see Dulay move the goalpost. First the claim was they didn't correct the mistake at all and now they didn't do it well enough. But no admission that the shit you said was 100% wrong and no further admission that your declaration about a graphic was unknowable and made up.
What. A. Surprise.
Oh Noes! I found one! A separate statement from the man responsible for the mistake in the first place. It took me like a minute. And you could have found it too, if you weren't so busy issuing unsupported allegations about what FBC has done or not done.
Lou Dobbs Corrects and Then Riffs on Incorrect Poll Numbers He Aired That Tripped Up Trump
Oh ,that's hilarious. Now you know what Fox wants! If Fox wants the distinction, then why did they bother to issue corrections on both Fox News and Fox business? Why didn't they just ignore it over at Fox News? Hmm?
No, please. Don't bother trying to answer. It's too cringeworthy at this point.