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Music Man

(1,184 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:15 PM Aug 2020

What's the deal with Trafalgar Group polls?

They are one of the polling groups that has shown Trump either competitive or leading in key states. Trafalgar Group polls this week showed Trump ahead in Texas and Arizona, when others have Biden ahead.

I know that 538 gives Trafalgar a C- rating, but I also understand Trafalgar to have correctly polled Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida in 2016 and to have correctly called several important races in 2018.

Takes on Trafalgar from people who understand this stuff better than I? Are they a conservatively-biased pollster that has just gotten lucky, or is there something to their model that others are not seeing?

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What's the deal with Trafalgar Group polls? (Original Post) Music Man Aug 2020 OP
Garbage polls...You have a link showing these polls? Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #1
I generally follow the polls as they come up at 270towin.com Music Man Aug 2020 #2
I posted a link...if you have any interest...that poll was the only one showing Trump ahead Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #6
Perhaps they were lucky in those states because they got the skinny from Russia. TheBlackAdder Aug 2020 #3
That's Not Why ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #5
Here is the latest poll that contains Trafalgar...I am not worried. Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #4
channeling your best Seinfeld SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #7
LOL, I thought about that. Music Man Aug 2020 #9
you are a 1 note Music Man SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #8
To be fair, there is an excellent samba by that name. Music Man Aug 2020 #10

Music Man

(1,184 posts)
2. I generally follow the polls as they come up at 270towin.com
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:19 PM
Aug 2020

Anyone can find them there if they'd like.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
6. I posted a link...if you have any interest...that poll was the only one showing Trump ahead
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 06:27 PM
Aug 2020

in Arizona...garbage poll.

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)
5. That's Not Why
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:25 PM
Aug 2020

They have a notorious R bias.
Those states were believed to be fairly close by nearly every pollster.
Since they bias right, their "data" called it for PINO.
51:49, and they say 49:51. Hooray, we called it, because 12,000 people voted that way!
They just got lucky, because in any close race, they'll call it for the R.

Music Man

(1,184 posts)
9. LOL, I thought about that.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 06:56 PM
Aug 2020

"What's the deal with Trafalgar Group polls?" is definitely not one of his classic bits.

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