An informal straw poll that Turning Point USA, the student movement which late conservative activist Charlie Kirk co-founded, conducted at its America Fest conference in Phoenix, Ariz., made headlines for its suggestion that most attendees see Israel as an ally.
Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show and a Turning Point spokesman, stated that “a clear majority view Israel as one ally of many (53.4%), about one-third of attendees see Israel as our top ally (33.3%), while 13.3% do not view Israel as an ally at all.”
An image that Kolvet shared on social media didn’t state how many of the estimated 31,000 attendees voted on the question.
In another post, the spokesman said that “this straw poll received the largest number of responses of any straw poll in our organization’s history, representing a statistically significant response rate.”
“It’s also the youngest average age of a respondent from any AmFest ever,” he stated. (JNS sought comment from Turning Point and from Big Data Poll about how many people responded to the poll question about Israel.)
Fox News appeared to suggest that every attendee took the poll, as it reported that some 31,008 answered one of the questions. It wasn’t immediately clear why a Turning Point spokesman would refer to the sample size as “statistically significant” if 100% of attendees responded to the poll.
