from WND:

After 2016, Republicans have been loath to trust polls, particularly those that have President Donald Trump’s name on it. Now they have a new reason to distrust polling: The absence of it.

If you’ve watched cable news for any of the election cycles in recent memory, the focus in the days and weeks following the national conventions of the major political parties was the polling. It was about who got a “bounce” and who didn’t.

This time, there seems to be a void. Perhaps you didn’t notice. If you did, maybe you thought this was a case of a particularly busy few news cycles. Kenosha. Chadwick Boseman. Nancy Pelosi’s salon visits and ice-cream detours.

The answer is a bit more curious: There isn’t a whole lot of it, at least from the major news networks.

The GOP convention ended 5 days ago and the Democrat convention ended 12 days ago, and we’re to see a single post-convention poll (either GOP or Dem) from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or Fox . At this stage in 2016, the networks had conducted 7 (!) polls after either convention.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 1, 2020

That’s The Federalist’s Sean Davis, noting Tuesday that the Big Six of network and cable news haven’t put out a single poll since the GOP convention ended on Aug. 27 and the Democrat convention ended on Aug. 20. (To be fair, this is more like five entities ignoring polling, as MSNBC would use polls from NBC News. This doesn’t make it much better.)

According to RealClearPolitics’ aggregation of major polls, the rest of Tuesday passed without a poll from those entities, either. What is clear is that Trump has been gaining on Democratic nominee Joe Biden. In the RealClearPolitics polling average, Biden’s lead went from 7.8 percent on Aug. 24 to 6.2 percent on Aug. 31. For a brief period in June, Biden’s average lead was 10 points and as late as July 27, he had a 9.3 point lead.

In fact, there have only been two surveys included by RealClearPolitics that even sampled respondents after President Trump’s acceptance speech on Aug. 27. Emerson, in a poll conducted among 1,567 likely voters  Aug. 30-31, found Biden with a 2 percentage point lead over Trump, 49 percent to 47 percent. A survey by The Hill/HarrisX, meanwhile, found Biden with a 9 percentage point lead over the president, 47 percent to 38 percent.

There have been multiple polls since the Democratic National Convention closed, meanwhile — but, conspicuously, none by those six organizations.

One of the organizations that have issued results since the DNC was Rasmussen Reports, which found Biden only ahead 46 percent to 45 percent, conducted among 2,500 likely voters between Aug. 19 and Aug. 25. Rasmussen, too, noticed the incongruity and had an explanation for it: “National political poll suppression.”

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