Anybody buying this?

[reggaehead]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has some favorable ratings among both Latinos and African-American voters, according to results of the latest Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll. The poll's demographic breakdown showed that by combining voters who were "very favorable" and "somewhat favorable" to Trump, the billionaire developer got a positive rating from 35 percent of Hispanics and 24 percent of African-Americans. 18.4 percent of Hispanics rated him "very favorable;" 16.4 percent of Hispanics rated him "somewhat favorable." Among black voters: 10.5 percent rated Trump "very favorable;" 13.3 percent rated Trump "somewhat favorable." A Breitbart analysis of the poll

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/634157c6-51c7-37b0-802f-c1a8b721d5ed/ss_national-poll%3A-trump-surges.html

[elleng]

1. No, but I don't 'buy' ANY polls!

[democrattotheend]

2. The Boston Herald is a right wing paper

But that doesn't necessarily make it a bad poll. You have to look at the pollster, not the media organization that hired the pollster. Fox's polls don't tend to lean particularly Republican, for example. The way they report the polls has a right wing slant, but the polls themselves are usually middle of the pack.

My understanding is that Franklin Pierce is a decent pollster, but I could be mixing them up. Keep in mind these are favorability ratings. Not everyone who views Trump favorably will vote for him. It doesn't say what % of those votes Trump is getting.

[Shrike47]

3. No.

[Hekate]

4. Breitbart analysis? No.

[oasis]

5. Hell no.

[Beartracks]

6. Maybe they only know him from The Apprentice?

If you haven't been paying attention to politics and all his dumb shit and dangerous ideas, you might still hold a favorable opinion of him as the charmingly blunt blowhard billionaire in his gilded high-rise cage.

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[niyad]

7. suuuuuure, I do--and the sun comes up in the north, yes?

[Make7]

8. Here's a link to the poll results:

https://www.franklinpierce.edu/institutes/mfcc/polling/FPU-BH-090416-Tables.pdf#page=10

[major debacle]

10. The article originated on Newsmax...

... so one must assume they will publish anything that boosts Trump. But the poll was conducted by Franklin Pierce University, which gets a B- from 538. However, the sampling was only 105 for Hispanics and 101 for blacks, with no mention of party affiliation breakdown for each group.

In short, it's one poll with a very small sampling. Who can tell how accurate it is?

[triron]

12. newsmx

is rw shill organization. 101 and 105 are very small samples.

[Todays_Illusion]

11. This entire election year is beyond belief, especially the polling. nt

[AgadorSparticus]

13. No. Not even close. They need to just give it up already. It is just desperation at this point.