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thesquanderer

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8. Yes. But also, these numbers ONLY reflect people who support or at least lean toward someone.
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 08:07 AM
Aug 2019

If someone is genuinely undecided and cannot even name who they are leaning to, it looks like they are not taken into account in morning consult's polling figures. As far as I can see, their figures are not percentages of all voters, but rather all voters who express any preference. In fact, if you use their numbers to add up all the support for all candidates, it comes to 102%! I guess that's from rounding errors. But the point is, it is not accurate to think that 100% of people know who they're voting for, meaning the morning consult figures don't give us an idea of how many people's votes are still up for grabs.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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