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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: PPP tied at 48 [View all]

brooklynite

(94,737 posts)
10. Okay - let me try it with a higher post count...
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 09:43 AM
Oct 2012

Last edited Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:45 AM - Edit history (1)

...if you're going to disparage a poll because you suddenly don't like the results its giving you, perhaps you can provide a reason that a polling company which has historically worked for Democratic campaigns and liberal causes, would all of a sudden be skewing their polling data.

Or, you could accept that 1) its a close election, 2) endless polling is going to create a lot of statistical noise and outliers as a matter of course, and 3) the issue is not the polling result on a given day, but the polling trands over time.

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