Out of curiosity, does anybody know what ryme or reason Realclearpolitcs.com uses to decide what polls it includes in it’s average of polls. They seem to use the PPP state polls even though PPP is a democrat polling outfit, but they don’t seem to be using the PPP national poll. Also they use to include Reuters/Ipsos but they haven’t included it the last couple weeks. The only four daily’s they seem to always use are Gallup, Ras, IBD/TIPP, and ABC/Washpost. But then sometimes they’ll include some podunk college poll that nobody has ever heard of. Then last week they threw in both a Time magazine poll and a Zogby poll, neither of which I’d seen them include the entire year (and both of which were bad for Romney which brought down the average).
(and both of which were bad for Romney which brought down the average).
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Which is the reason they were included. The whole idea is to keep people coming back by showing the race neck and neck. Kinda like watching a ball game. If the score becomes 10-1 you are likely to turn it off but if it’s 1-1 you are likely to stay tuned.