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Trump had nearly double the support of his closest competitor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who got 16 percent
Jeb = 16%
16 X 2 = 32
so where does the "nearly double" come from
I guess this is Common Core Math
Jepito press 2 for English. Jepito X 2...
It’s rounded, internals show 31.9 to 16.2. But I agree, they’re being picky...anything to try to hold Trump down.
I guess they’re being precise with the 31.9% and 16.2% results.
Here’s the data trend:
Interesting that Bush has had a boost in the last few days too, while the others have fallen. Two possibilities: 1) as the time from the debate increases the two guys with the most name recognition gain. And/or 2) because Jeb reversed himself to sort of come out defending the ‘anchor baby’ term after Trump this week, that might have benefited him as well.
That link is interesting. You can apply different filters to see different results.
For example, narrow it down to likely GOP primary voters (which, after all, is what counts) and Trump’s lead grows to 32%-13% over Bush, who is still in second—but just barely with Carson and Cruz following with 11.4% and 6.8%.
Wow—here’s another one.
For those of Democrat or independent party affiliation, sure ‘wouldn’t vote at all’ ekes out the lead at 29%, but Trump is at 28%, with the next three of Bush, Paul, and Walker all the way down at 5.6%, 5.1%, and 4.7% respectively.
That is huge—Trump gets more than five times the second-place candidate among independents and Democrats. If it were a GOPe candidate with that advantage, that’s all we’d hear about!
Perhaps the breakout with meaningless decimals might more likd 31.8% to 16.3%. That would be reported as 32-16 and accurately as “nearly double.” Of course as poll numbers they are not that accurate and error range could make the correct numbers for the particular people polled to be 32.4% to 15.6%. “Nearly” is probably a reading of the decimals which were not then printed and is, itself too fine a description for the nature of the data.
Perhaps the breakout with meaningless decimals might more likd 31.8% to 16.3%. That would be reported as 32-16 and accurately as “nearly double.” Of course as poll numbers they are not that accurate and error range could make the correct numbers for the particular people polled to be 32.4% to 15.6%. “Nearly” is probably a reading of the decimals which were not then printed and is, itself too fine a description for the nature of the data.
I am guessing they are taking into account margin of error.
If it was 3%, the numbers could be 29:19 or could be 35:13.