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Harris Campaign's David Plouffe: We Were Surprised Public Polls ‘Showed Us With Leads We Never Saw’ In Internal Polls
2024-11-28
The power of purchasing polls. If Mr. Plouffe really was surprised at the difference, he’s in the wrong profession. Video and transcript can be seen at the link.
[RealClearPolitics] During a "Pod Save America" discussion with leading Harris campaign staffers, Obama 2008 campaign manager and senior advisor to the Harris campaign David Plouffe revealed that their internal polls never showed Harris with a lead and they were surprised to see public polls that did.

He described the first part of the race, "Biden-Trump 1.0," as "catastrophic," but when Harris took over they had some guarded optimism: "I don’t know how optimistic we were, but we thought, okay, this is tied, and if a couple of things break our way..."

"I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw," he said. "It was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46-47, 47-48."

"We started behind. She was able to climb out. I think even after the debate, we might have gained, what, 0.5-1? It wasn’t a race that moved a lot."

"When you think about our own internal analytics, you know, if you have Wisconsin at 47-47, or Pennsylvania 48-47 Trump, let’s say, which I think is where we had it at the end, you know, you’ve got to have undecideds break your way more than your opponents, and you’ve got to get a little benefit from turnout, which we weren’t able to do," he said.
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  Plouffe is not surprised. He coordinated with the media. It just didn’t work.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-11-28 15:34  

#4  The media needs a close race. Nobody cheers for a mule in a horse race.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-11-28 14:08  

#3  Ironically, I think that if Biden had stayed in, he would have won.

He would have taken PA and that would have sunk President Trump's chances at a win.

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh at the thought of that.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2024-11-28 13:12  

#2  So, it was smoke and mirrors the entire time.
Lying liars who live by lying. A lot of people pi$$ed in their own wells.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-11-28 08:45  

#1  ...Proof - if any more was needed - that the polling companies are either incompetent or 'bent', to use a wonderful term from our Cousins across the pond.

Either way, this needs to be a wakeup call.

Once and for all.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-11-28 05:59  

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