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Don't look at a single poll. Look at a bunch at once. Like this bunch, with a 6.9% average spread. (Original Post) pnwmom Aug 2016 OP
and then an outlier MFM008 Aug 2016 #1
RCP is OK Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #2
I use huffington post/pollster average Doctor Jack Aug 2016 #3
If she's doing that well in RCP, that's a great sign. And I fully agree about the Reuters, pnwmom Aug 2016 #4
LA times, reuters, and rassy Doctor Jack Aug 2016 #5

MFM008

(19,806 posts)
1. and then an outlier
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 01:08 AM
Aug 2016

brings down the average of the good polls.
Like the new Reuters poll.
If he were truly just 3 points behind it will mean mass hypnosis
or a total nervous breakdown is happening
in this country.

Johnny2X2X

(19,059 posts)
2. RCP is OK
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 01:23 AM
Aug 2016

But they've been shown to manipulate the polls they put in their average.

The ABC WAPO poll will have her over +7 in the RCP and the internals are devastating to Trump.

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
3. I use huffington post/pollster average
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 01:27 AM
Aug 2016

They proved to be much more accurate in 2012. RCP had a tie going into election day 2012 and obama won by almost 5 points. They have a right wing slant.

As for the reuters poll, like the la times they are an experimental online poll. Both are erratic and move at random. I dont trust them and neither do most aggregate sites

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
4. If she's doing that well in RCP, that's a great sign. And I fully agree about the Reuters,
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 01:28 AM
Aug 2016

which is similar to the worthless Dornsife poll.

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