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If The Polls Are Right, How Do Democrats Keep Winning Elections?

If The Polls Are Right, How Do Democrats Keep Winning Elections?

The media and polls keeping telling the American people that Republicans are winning. Yet Democrats continue to win elections.

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The Polls And Election Results Are Disagreeing

The polls were predicting that the New York US House race to fill the seat that was occupied by former Rep. George Santos would be close. Polling was within the margin of error, but Democrats won the election by eight points.

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On Sunday on Meet The Press, host Kristen Welker claimed that Biden’s message wasn’t resonating with voters.

Here is the exchange between Welker and Sen. Amy Klobuchar:

KRISTEN WELKER:

Senator, let me just follow up with you a little bit here because you cite those figures on the economy and yet the vast majority of Americans say they are not feeling it, when it comes to the economy. They give President Biden low marks on the economy. It's not resonating with voters. Why do you think – you obviously ran against President Biden in 2020. He promised that, essentia…

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