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Hillary Clinton

In reply to the discussion: Panic!! (Or not.) [View all]

mercuryblues

(15,809 posts)
5. I like comparing
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 12:54 AM
Jul 2016

apples to apples. Same polling company, same time of year or week to week. Not apples to oranges. Not different polls at different times of the year with sporadic polling. It just gives me a sense of where the candidates stand. Rsm and Q always lean right, so when the show a dem up by 10, it really should be 15.

I do not put faith in whatever polling company it was that had Clinton up by a wide margin a few weeks ago, then the numbers flipped the next week in favor of Trumplethinskin. To me that is indicative of bad polling. Especially when all the other polls stayed comparatively the same. When I tried to research their methodology and demographics you had to be a member to get that info.


Not going to panic over outliers.

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