2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton down 10 points in one week [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)Interesting that even though it was less than one point, not a peep about the fact that Sanders dropped, too.
The implication is that she dropped precipitously, but there also was no mention that their last poll had her higher than any other poll NOR is there a mention that at the beginning of September (only a month ago) the same Reuters/Ipsos poll had her at 42% and in mid-September she was only at 40%!
So what Reuters essentially is saying is that from the beginning of September to now her number is basically the same.
I'm inclined to agree with some here, it's not a very accurate poll.
From Huffington Pollster, which gathers all the poll figures and lists them, here are the last several Reuters/Ipsos polls going back to mid-August (they seem to put one out every few days!) - they seem to be all over the place.
44 27
46 25
40 30
46 25
42 28
48 22
47 23
I don't recall seeing anything said when Sanders lost 1/6th of his support, "plunging" from 30 to 25 a few weeks ago.