From: Josh Rosenbluth <noway@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: Trump Sues Newspaper Over Election Interference
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:44:55 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 12/22/2024 6:43 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:02:30 -0800, Josh Rosenbluth
> <noway@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2024 6:56 AM, NoBody wrote:
{snip}
>>> Her poll was so out of whack with every other poll that she should
>>> have reexamined it before publishing. Her failure to do so is
>>> negligence on her part.
>>
>> The same thing happened in 2016 and 2020 when she had Trump far ahead of
>> what all the other pollsters had. She did not reexamine then (and stood
>> alone in being right), and did not do so now (and stood alone in being
>> wrong).
>
> Yep. That's why she no longer has any crediblility. When you make an
> obviously wrong poll once, you'd best see why it was wrong and fix it
> (unless you intend to mislead and gives a foundation for a lawsuit).
She was right in 2016 and 2020 using the same methodology.
>> But assuming for the sake of argument she is negligent, the First
>> Amendment protects her because negligence does not establish fraud.
>
> Once again, if she knowingly published a poll with a known bad
> methodology (as you had noted, she had the same issue in the past)
> it's fraud. That's what discovery is for.
Again, she was right in 2016 and 2020. There was no reason for her to
believe her methodology was wrong.