PPP does advocacy polling for Democrats. As for UPI, it was something about the methodology that they believed was suspect. Zogby in particular came in for a lot of criticism in 2008 for his practices. I don’t know if he polls for UPI or not.
“PPP does advocacy polling for Democrats. As for UPI, it was something about the methodology that they believed was suspect. Zogby in particular came in for a lot of criticism in 2008 for his practices. I don’t know if he polls for UPI or not.”
Interesting, but doesn’t the issue of methodology balance out with other polls? For example, there was a recent ABC Washington Post poll showing Obama up by three which RCP includes in their averages where the methodology possibly could be in question. The PPP and UPI poll would balance that out. I just don’t remember RCP excluding so many polls in the past, although I do recall Zogby being in question and excluded. Aside from Zogby they pretty much included all polls and let things balance out, the end result was they were usually within a point of the final election result. Just wondering if they’re doing things differently this election and excluding more polls and if so, why?