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 I'd like to think that no reporter at the NY Times will willing to attach his/her name to the paper's promotion of garbage polls boosting Trump and slamming Biden.

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 @f8d9bc1c Perhaps it wasn’t written by a reporter at the Times. Are we doing articles the same way politicians are doing laws, these days? Written by think-tanks, then “sold” to the publisher. 
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the GOP did the same thing in the midterms .blithering about a red wave .  
  i believe the only chance of the GOP winning is voter suppression . by intimidation on voting lines . removal of electors . or a swindle in the electoral college 
 @f8d9bc1c Non-zero chance this was written by NYT-GPT? 
 @f8d9bc1c it's not complicated, the rich want a Trump dictatorship. 
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538 (they're good at reporting polls, if not so good at predictions) has

- Biden at 63% for the D primary
- Trump at 55% for the R primary,

and this is the story they choose to write 

Fuck the fucking fuckers at the #NYTimes 
 @f8d9bc1c The campaign "narrative" at the moment is so comically skewed/clichéd that you do have to wonder if political reporters are thinking "is it too much?" But no, they probably aren't