Briefly, I worked in media, campaigns and travel overseas a lot so I get to see how things are done in other countries.

Americans are sometimes surprised to find out there are modern democratic countries where the media isn't allowed to publish their own polls days before a federal election.

This is because it's such a well-known phenom, so predictable to influence that they actually suspend free speech and freedom of the press to try and guarantee the purest free will voting. Just look up North to Canada to see that.

Many here know these tricks of course. In 2016 NONE OF THE MEDIA WAS SURPRISED. None. None that were familiar and followed closely, none of the experts were surprised Trump won. What they did was purposely discount 'participation' from their polls and decided that having it appear Hillary was certain to win was the most effective available way to influence voters.

What they are doing now is much much worse and far more dangerous. I know it from some South America 'banana republics' but I believe anyone here who's familiar with Eastern European elections knows full-well how this will play out.

So what's likely happened is that the media people are aware Trump is very likely to win this. Some are already bracing for a real possibility of a Trump landslide win and that includes congress.

What they are doing here is gaming sampling, playing tricks with numbers, basically rigging their own polls in ways so that they can create a very strong narrative that Harris-Biden are WAY AHEAD.

This will not stop and if anything there will be a lot of stories and headlines about 'Trump Desperation' and stories about how Biden locked in such an insurmountable lead. Note lots of language, insurmountable, locked in, Biden is clearly, obviously, everything is 'clear' and so on.

Why?

In the Media Party's Doomsday scenario this works either way. If Trump wins by a moderate or close margin we evidence of a fraudulent election. If Trump wins by a landslide its an even bigger fraud! It's even more unbelievable the more numbers Trump gets!

The huge Biden lead in polls will be their 'evidence' and even their 'Proof' that the election results were rigged and Trump and Putin obviously did something. Trump will be the illegitimate president etc.

They will also start referring to their polls as if they are referring to the 'American voters' and as if they are the words of 'the vast majority of Americans' and that the bogus election results are the enemy of the people (their polls are now 'the people'.

This is HIGHLY EFFECTIVE. This will work on the dumb NPC's but watch in amazement as this works like magic on some of the smarter people you know in life.

This will be their premise, justification and their influential narrative for a massive campaign to dismiss Trump as legitimate president and some already know that will lead to some very horrific consequences.

Please know this. This actually can be mitigated in the last few weeks by simply calling it out. Point out they are reduced to 3rd world Media levels, point out they're using a cheap technique from less sophisticated democracies and embarrass them over such a nasty gimmick.

But please know this is a dangerous game and be aware of this.

There are some good articles on 'poll campaigning' and the other terms for these kinds of Media Party manipulations: https://sociable.co/web/polls-influence-votes-american-election/

IF there are any Pedes here from the old country where they personally know how this Media Poll trick was used then please feel free to add more explainers etc. I know we have the best media-savvy people here so please comment.