OldLady
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It sounds like CNN did make random calls but didn't weight the population parameters?most serious polls use data weighting for population parameters, but NOT for party affiliation.So it wasn't a random poll? I thought polls were just you-get-who-you-get? I'm confused.Trump supporters were jubilant a few days ago when new poll suddenly showed Trump ahead of Hillary.....but, as it turns out.....someone skewed the polling. Too bad for Trump and his supporters....you need to work harder.
The poll of likely voters, released Tuesday by CNN/ORC, showed Trump ahead of Clinton nationwide in a four-way contest, 45 percent to 43 percent. But MSNBC host Chuck Todd explained that the poll, in his network’s estimation, may have oversampled white voters without a college degree, one of Trump’s strongest groups.
“Whites without a college degree appear to make up nearly half of their sample. In 2012, by the way, whites without a college degree was slightly more than a third of all voters,” Todd said. “The point is, your numbers may not be wrong but your weighting may be, your assumptions. So the CNN folks assumed an electorate that is not an impossible scenario for Trump, but it would be an historic shift if it occurred.”
With the numbers adjusted to reflect how the electorate shook out four years ago, Clinton’s two-point deficit shifted to a four-point lead, 46 percent to 42 percent.
The poll was conducted via landlines and cellphones from Sept. 1-4, surveying 1,001 adults with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, including 886 registered voters and 786 likely voters.
Read more: MSNBC unskews CNN poll that showed Trump ahead
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MSNBC unskews CNN poll that showed Trump ahead
Oh, hell, I don't know. Like they say, it's about the electoral votes at this point, not the popular vote, but I'm VERY afraid this is going to be a repeat of the primaries, where I watched in horrified fascination as Trump steadily and surely took the lead and won. And no one did anything.