[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                   POLL MISREPRESENTS THE ELECTORATE

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, a recent Washington Post-ABC News 
poll states that only 36 percent of Americans approve the job President 
Trump is doing. But the results of this poll are flawed because it did 
not use a representative sample of Republican and Democratic 
participants.
  This Washington Post-ABC NEWS poll used a population sample that was 
35 percent Democratic and only 23 percent Republican, underrepresenting 
Republican voters by about 10 percent.
  As noted by strategist Jim McLaughlin, ``If the poll reflected the 
actual electorate, Trump would be in mid-40s, which is what his 
favorability rating was on election day when he won an overwhelming 
electoral college victory.''
  The same Washington Post pollsters gave Hillary Clinton a four-point 
advantage over Donald Trump on the eve of the election. They 
consistently predicted a significant Clinton victory, only to be proved 
wrong. Their credibility is questionable.

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