electoral-vote Removing the Ipsos Polls from the Database

[Norbert]

Citing internet poling in it's infancy and that they are outside the margin of error.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Sep21.html#item-11


I'm doing this on the fly so it is best to read it and draw you conclusions.

[Loki Liesmith]

1. interesting

[marybourg]

2. Yes. NM is blue again.

But CO is not.

[Blue Idaho]

3. Here is their explanation

"Ipsos has been conducting Internet polls of many states. Since some of these states have been rarely polled, our first reaction was to include the polls in our database. However, our second reaction is that maybe this wasn't such a great idea. Internet polling is in its infancy and is very hard to pull off, because even if one could take a true random sample of all Internet users (which is totally impossible), then the pollster still has to deal with the fact that the demographics of the Internet are not a good match for the demographics of the electorate. Fixing the problem requires elaborate statistical techniques and a very good model of the electorate."