That was my first thought, those people will be back in the machine when the news dies down.

Because they are the same thing

Or you’re using some kind of proxy/vpn from a server that has been identified as malicious and their subnet is banned in some list. Pretty common and more likely.

This is what secnumcloud is in France, I hope Europe follows a similar approach.

That’s not entirely true, France is battling with very similar issues to the US. A rising far right power, media that are using the fox news playbook, t additional media that is playing catch-up and following the Overton window set by the previous point, similar blue collar struggles, a president that is appealing to the right while claiming the center despite a majority of constituents clearly signaling left in the last elections, etc. France is not far behind unfortunately.

I’d like for him to point at the western hemisphere on a globe.

Here’s a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn’t participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them