Why does electoral-vote.com refuse to "count" PPP polls?

[bluestateguy]

PPP polls are not counted in his color maps.

One might say it's because it's a partisan Democratic pollster, and I would accept that logic, but he does count polls done by Strategic Vision, which is a Republican pollster.

[Bob D]

1. Should we be paying attention...

...to electoral-vote.com? I thought he just arbitrarily picks a recent poll for each state. Isn't fivethirtyeight.com much better?

[Phoonzang]

2. Look at the Electoral-vote.com page on the day before the election in 2004...

That's a good enough reason why we shouldn't pay them too much attention. If I remember correctly, not only did they have Kerry ahead, they had Montana as solid blue...

[krawhitham]

4. No he had Montana as solid RED

averaged +20 for shrub

[Phoonzang]

5. So they did....I must have been hallucinating.

Now that I look at it, they had Bush ahead as well.

[krawhitham]

3. we have no idea if fivethirtyeight.com is better

This is the 1st election for fivethirtyeight.com, on Nov 4th-5th we will know if fivethirtyeight.com is better