[Mr Quatro]

If polls represented the true thoughts of the American people then Hillary Clinton would be the President of the United States instead of Donald Trump

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04...l-ratings.html

Many people have been surprised this week to see two tweets from President Trump citing his high approval ratings in a recent opinion poll. It’s surprising because everyone who is paying attention knows that Trump’s approval ratings are the lowest in history for a president at this stage of his presidency. (George W. Bush’s ratings went much lower, but it took him years to accomplish that.)

We decided to take a closer look at the numbers in various opinion polls to try to understand what’s really going on.

We concluded that two things are going on:

In his most recent tweet, Trump is lying about his approval rating, and
All of his tweets about approval ratings are very misleading, and thus, inaccurate.
On the second point, his tweets are misleading because they cite Rasmussen Reports, which is only one of the many polls that track approval ratings. And Rasmussen uses a unique methodology that assures a very conservative bias.

What Rasmussen does is use computers to call telephone landlines to get its poll results. So the respondents to its polls are ONLY people who are at home to answer their landlines, who of course are older and more conservative. It’s as if Trump’s approval was being polled only among people who watch Fox News.