Does anyone else have a problem with this poll when the pollster’s numbers don’t add up?
Look at the question regarding being liberal or conservative.
11% very liberal, 17% somewhat liberal, 32% moderate, 25% somewhat conservative, 16% very conservative.
11+17+32+25+16=101 percent. Would a serious pollster make a mistake like this?
Possibly there was some rounding up done with the numbers, in order to make them whole and not have fractional parts, which then led to more than 100 when totaled.
The difference is quite negligible and doesn’t concern me.
If I were to critique PPP polling, I would look at other aspects to criticize.
Virginia’s beltway employees would never admit to being Republican. However, many are quite aware of the writing on the wall.
This is a simple rounding error that sometimes happens when each of the component numbers have been rounded off to whole numbers then added together.
An example-three results of 15.6%, 30.8%, and 53.6% add up to 100.0%, but if you round the three numbers to 16%, 31%, and 54%, then they add up to 101%.
It's common, and not evidence of fakery or incompetence.