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2016 Postmortem

Lord Magus

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1. Doesn't use a random sample? That should be enough by itself to dismiss the poll out of hand.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:49 PM

Aug 2016

Honestly I'm not a fan of tracking polls in the first place. Having the exact same people being polled repeatedly means that if your poll is an outlier once, it will always be an outlier since you keep going back to the same bad sample group.

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Why the USC/LA Times tracking poll is a crock. [View all] pnwmom Aug 2016 OP

Doesn't use a random sample? That should be enough by itself to dismiss the poll out of hand. Lord Magus Aug 2016 #1

Hillary +4 in this poll today Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #2

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