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13357296, I'm trying to track back what's happened here
Posted by Walleye, Tue Nov-26-19 08:34 AM
1. Vex cites a news article regarding a poll from Emerson, a group that at the very least is generally regarded as pretty mainstream.

2. Though the article he quoted came from a kind of obscure source, the Emerson poll on impeachment been reported in number of spots, including Emerson's own site: http://emersonpolling.com/2019/11/21/november-national-poll-support-for-impeachment-declines-biden-and-sanders-lead-democratic-primary/

3. However, because this seems like good news for the President, it's also been picked up by a number of conservative leaning spots like NYPost and The Hill

4. In an effort to demonstrate that our man Vex has linked something from a ritually impure spot, you appear to have put up a twitter post from a private citizen who works for Turning Point USA who is purporting to use the same poll to demonstrate that Trump is scoring very positive numbers among black voters

5. This person, challenged on his post, linked to the same piece on Emerson's own site, which does in fact affirm their numbers for impeachment polling but which does not feature anywhere, at any time, approval numbers for Trump among black voters

It's possible I've omitted a step here or misunderstood a component of somebody's argument, but this was getting incredibly weird and it seemed worth reviewing.