And the focus groups on college campuses generally require some incentive for participation, likewise focus groups of other voters, and (simply because people have lives) very few groups other than retirees, semiemployed or unemployed, and college students have TIME to participate. 14/x

There is evidence that even these particular focus groups are monkeyed around with, as these are sometimes the source of right-wing "noise polls" (which I'll get into), and there are cases where Christian Nationalist churches encourage members to join focus groups as "unaffiliateds" to skew. 15/x