Roughly two-thirds of the country think Pres. Trump acted too slowly in responding to the coronavirus outbreak, per new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/XopsBeAXxE pic.twitter.com/o2c5UHpOhs
— ABC News (@ABC) September 14, 2020
A recent ABC/Ipsos poll portended trouble for President Trump as it showed 67% of Americans to believe Mr. Trump’s response to the Covid19 pandemic to be “too slow.”
However, the poll was found to have surveyed just 533 Americans that were not qualified as “like to vote,” a benchmark commonly used in polling as a means by which to inform an election.
The poll was also found to have surveyed more Democrats than Republicans, 31% to 25%. 38% of those surveyed self-identified as independents.
As Raheem Kassam at National Pulse writes:
“The revelations about such shoddy polling brings to mind the warnings of the late Christopher Hitchens, who once wrote in Harper’s magazine: ‘Opinion polling was born out of a struggle not to discover the public mind but to master it.'”
“He continued: ‘…Polls are deployed only when they might prove useful — that is, helpful to the powers that be in their question to maintain their position and influence. Indeed, the polling industry is a powerful ally of depoliticization and its counterpart which is consensus.’”