PPP Polling unreliable..."Hillary Clinton has 8-point lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa: poll"

[berniepdx420]

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has an 8-point lead over Sen. Bernard Sanders in Iowa, according to a poll released Friday ahead of next week’s caucuses.

Mrs. Clinton was at 48 percent support to the Vermont senator’s 40 percent, according to the poll from the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was at 7 percent.

“We’ve found Hillary Clinton leading in Iowa by 6-8 points on our last two polls,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. “Bernie Sanders will likely make up some ground from Martin O’Malley voters moving toward him. To pull the upset he will need large numbers of voters who aren’t currently registered Democrats to show up on his behalf Monday night.”

[retrowire]

1. That's a good point. nt

[jeff47]

2. Their last NH poll was Clinton 47, Sanders 44 (nt)

[Betty Karlson]

3. We know that. But thanks for reminding us.

It's probably the landline-based methodology that skews the polls from PPP?

[Jarqui]

4. They took money from Correct the Record to do a debate poll

That rattled my trust in them. There were also some poor demographics that seemed to favor Hillary in most of their polls. They used to be one of the most reliable. Now, i'm a little suspicious.

I've never felt like this about the media. Never this bad. I feel that the big boys are really in control this time and pulling the strings like never before on their bought politicians and journalist puppets they own.

To me, that was the difference in the 60s and 70s. We had Cronkite or a real 60 minutes or Woodward-Bernstein - real or better honest arbiters of the arguments of that time. Who do we have to trust now? Even Maddow is starting to look a little shaky and I never expected to say or feel that about her.

This whole campaign atmosphere smells. It's like I can feel it. It's kind of creepy. And out of all that, we have an honest politician campaigning.