Ok, I know when the Republicans say "the media's polls are rigged!" it sounds like mindless Trumpism, but more and
more a rational mind has to agree there is something to these complaints.
A case in point,
The Cook Political Report bills itself as "... an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends." Their studies are cited widely in the media as "non-partisan." (a quick Google will confirm this).
Here's the thing, on November 2nd, the day before the election, they published a report labeling 27 House races as "toss ups."
https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings
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.. yet the GOP won every single one of those 27 races. How can that happen? I realize it's a bit simplistic to liken a close race to a coin flip, but the etymology of the term "toss-up" does come from the act of flipping a coin, so a 50/50 chance is clearly what is meant by the term. The odds of flipping a coin 27 times and having it come up heads 27 times in a row is 1 in 134,217,728 (i.e. 2 to the 27th power). A quick search of the web tells me those chances are roughly 268 times
more remote than the chances of any one of you reading this message being struck by lightning this year.
So are we really to believe Cook was this wrong merely by chance?