The Problem with Pollsters...

If we're going to try and do identity-politics horse-race coverage, and the boys crunch the numbers, then we make sure first they are asking the right questions...

Poll numbers allegedly show black voters support Joe Biden...

But WHICH black voters?  The older establishment Dems, who have seen their fortunes rise within the party, and are the loyal registered voters that the polls usually count (and perhaps oversample?)

Or the NEW black young voters coming up?
I don't think there is strong support for Joe Biden from the up-and-coming black people, especially those young ones NOT on the academic-to-corporation career pipeline that so many smart educated middle-class black youth find themselves today trapped in thanks to affirmative-action numbers that need to be met, and the financial incentives and rewards used to induce. ("They'll take your soul if you let them... Don't you let them! You just call out my Name, and you know where-ever you are, I'll come running, yes I will, to see you again..." ~JT/ Songwriter: Carol King.)

I don't think blacks fared all that well under President Obama, except of course for those chosen for the special programs, the academic-to-corporation paths, and the connected.

If you want to get more black voters on the rolls, give them someone to vote for.  And take note too, Kamala Harris was not their pick.  She appealed to the California liberals who thought her platform should be taking President Trump off Twitter, needling tech companies, desegregating schools via busing (!) (?)...

She is black in skintone, but culturally, doesn't seem to share the same values.

I know most of the current pollster stars are young Jewish men allegedly good with crunching numbers, but like with pundit David Brooks, I think they are out-of-touch with the American populace.

David today appears to be denying that America's Middle Class is rapidly vanishing as we open our doors to the wealth of the world -- which doesn't get so much coverage as the poverty-stricken trickling in from the south -- and price birthright citizenship at whatever rate it they charge a pregnant wealthy Asian woman to board a plane to America to deliver her baby, and another American not sharing our cultural values or history is born.

I'm not anti-Semitic, but I wish we had more worldly thinkers in the American political establishment now, and less of these parochial fellows who think they know the value of everything because they can run the numbers.
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 *Hat tip to Rodenberry: The Trouble with Tribbles...