“Yeah OK. The same way all those polls in 2012 were wrong and Romney was going to win in a landslide.”
Polls in October 2016 do matter, though they are not totally accurate as we saw last November. But polls in June 2015 in a 16-way primary race where the candidates range from less than 1% to 11% is largely insignificant — particularly a national poll.
We saw in 2012 how many shifts there were in frontrunner status even before the first votes were cast in Iowa. So to compare the polls today with Romney’s numbers in October 2012 is an absurd comparison. It’s more than safe to say that at this point — the polls have very little meaning.
“Polls in October 2016 do matter, though they are not totally accurate as we saw last November. But polls in June 2015 in a 16-way primary race where the candidates range from less than 1% to 11% is largely insignificant — particularly a national poll.”
I totally agree with that. It’s still too early to get much of read on any particular candidate as none of them have even really started to trend one way or another yet.
If you go back and read my posts this got started because I said I think Ted may have doomed himself with this statement. He’s going to need some voters out of the middle.
I admire his standing on his principles. I just don’t think he’s going to have the support to pull it off given that his own party is not Pro Ted.
Some Friends here obviously got butt hurt because I wouldn’t agree with them that Ted has a lock on it.