The title should be, How PBS spins it's own polll results on Trump when they don't like the results.
President Trump tweeted about a PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll result on Tuesday, highlighting that his approval rating among Latinos rose to 50 percent.
The president never said it was a poll only of Latinos, only that his Latino support was 50% in that poll, which it technically was. Just because the pollsters weren't looking at Latinos specifically doesn't make the fact in the poll incorrect. It might affect the facts relevence, but not the fact itself.However, the president overlooked the core finding of the poll, which showed that 57 percent of registered voters said they would definitely vote against Trump in 2020, compared to just 30 percent who said they would back the president. The president’s assertion that the poll shows an increase in support from Latino voters also requires context.
The United States’ Latino population is diverse, said Barbara Carvalho, the director of the poll. Last week’s survey was a look at Americans as a whole, and not a poll of Latinos in particular, so the president’s claim about his popularity with Latinos wasn’t “placed in context,” Carvalho said.
“We’re really not looking to draw conclusions about what smaller subgroups within the population feel,” Carvalho said.
It could range from 40 to 60% and it would've been more accurate if the sample size were bigger, in Spanish, etc, but so what? If you listen to most in the MSM no Latinos at all are supporting the President.Here’s a closer look at the data.
What the poll actually says
As part of the survey, 1,023 people were asked: “Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president?” President Trump was correct in that saying that 50 percent of the Latinos who were questioned in the survey said they approved of his work as president.
But only 153 Latino Americans were interviewed for the poll. The small sample size of Latino respondents had a “wide” margin of error of 9.9 percentage points, Carvalho said. That means the 50 percent approval rating among Latinos that Trump cited could range from 40 percent to 60 percent.
A statistically significant poll of Latino Americans would have a much larger sample size, a lower margin of error and would be conducted in English or Spanish. The interviews in the most recent PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll were conducted only in English.
(except perhaps the woman in Venezuela that was interviewed by multiple MSM sources, who said in Spanish, if Trump helps get rid of Maduro she would not only help build the wall she would paint it too.)
I don't read or listen to NPR all the time but enough that I can't recall when they ever fact checked President Obama on anything he said.