Judd Legum

This guy gets paid millions to divine public opinion

RT @[email protected]

When the dust settles from the 2022 midterms, the GOP will have between 233-240 House seats – outdoing their total from 1994.

Republicans also will take control of the Senate, but that won’t be clear until Friday. #ElectionDay

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1589773444207484928

Frank Luntz on Twitter

“When the dust settles from the 2022 midterms, the GOP will have between 233-240 House seats – outdoing their total from 1994. Republicans also will take control of the Senate, but that won’t be clear until Friday. #ElectionDay”

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Nov 12, 2022 at 6:16pmWeb
Show threadliberalvixenNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum Hey - it's great work if you can get it...lol...
Show threadPatheticaNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum He needs to go to different diners. Or breweries. Or coffee roaster. Or…
Show threadKathyinCaryNov 12, 2022
@Pathetica @juddlegum I come from the quantatative side of psychology (i/o psychology). Over-reliance on poor sampling, including focus groups and a few person-on-the-street interviews are not real research. At best they are analogous to pilot testing, not even preliminary research findings. Too many focus grous are reported publicly, as if they are real. Yet when 60 Minutes etc. glom onto Luntz groups they become as planned influencers of misguided public opinion.
Show threadPatheticaNov 12, 2022
@KathyinBburg I have seen a few Luntz focus groups and they are truly cringe worthy. I myself, have a theory and it is not that young people don't answer their phones to unknown numbers (because I am on old person who doesn't.) My theory is that smart people don't answer which certainly skews the polls.
Show threadDr. CNov 13, 2022
@KathyinBburg @Pathetica @juddlegum
Right?! I especially love the diner interviews of ‘swing voters’ who were actually right wing activists.
Show threadCaroline Z-HANov 12, 2022
@juddlegum He's no less accurate than he's ever been. His career success is a mystery.
Show threadLinkmeisterNov 12, 2022

@juddlegum Abe Lincoln: "you can fool some of the people all of the time"

In my observations over 50-something years, there are a LOT of political consultants who have managed that trick.

Show threadF.L. CocozzelliNov 12, 2022
@[email protected] Luntz helped create the MAGA monster with is misleading talking points and now he is complaining about Trumpism. Isn't that rich!?
Show threadAmish Super ModelNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum Luntz discovered that repeating the word “Trump” was bad for a candidate’s electability.
Show threadMaggie Greene RheeNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum Well, I'd say...time for him to be fired. 🤷‍♀️😂 #WrongSoWrong
Show threadElizabethNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum I KNOW. And he just coolly glided right over his wrongness to assert more things. And lament divisiveness. Which I’m pretty sure he invented.
Show threadDr.Susan BushinskiNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum real misinformation
Show threadJamie BarrafordNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum I hope Frank is Team Walker.
Show threadDavid F. SorosNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum LOL, but at least he'll engage the other side, civilly. https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1591489834241114112
Frank Luntz on Twitter

“I am getting (deservingly) roasted for this pre-election prediction. So, I must ask: Who got it right with their prediction❓ Link them in the replies – I try not to live in an echo chamber.”

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Show threadBzzychefNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum #bwahahaha
Show threadRazztaztic 🌈✍️🤷🕺🧇🕶️Nov 12, 2022
@juddlegum next up, "Buy crypto!"
Show threadThe BEST WordsNov 12, 2022
@juddlegum I think he’s gonna miss the mark this year. This year had too many first time voters. Democracy is learning what business already knew…grow or die.
Show threadA. Jay AdlerNov 13, 2022

@juddlegum Frank Luntz's real job, as you know, isn't to divine public opinion, it's to shape it.

"My job is to look for the words that trigger the emotion. Words alone can be found in a dictionary or a telephone book, but words with emotion can change destiny, can change life as we know it. We know it has changed history; we know it has changed behavior; we know that it can start a war or stop it. We know that words and emotion together are the most powerful force known to mankind."

Show threadTodd JohnstonNov 13, 2022
@juddlegum He also gets paid to influence public opinion under the guise of a divinator.
Show threadDr. CNov 13, 2022
@iceaxe @juddlegum bingo!
Show threadTengrainNov 13, 2022
@juddlegum And the very next day Frank Luntz was telling everyone what THEY got wrong without ever mentioning his own predictions.
Show threadJeffrey ThomasNov 13, 2022
@juddlegum I stopped watching CBS This Morning because they had him on so often and he was wrong so often
Show threadMcKennaLakeNov 16, 2022
@juddlegum
Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Most of the pundits got it wrong too.
I’m proud that Americans proved them all wrong.