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Why are you wasting my time and your time? The ‘writer’ is wrong. It’s been all over the news and blogosphere that Trump’s favorability ratings have done a ‘180’ and are now 2 to 1 favorable to unfavorable.

The Monmouth poll is not indicative of much of anything. It’s already supplanted by other meatier polls in the last day and half.

The Rove ‘conspiracy’ is not a conspiracy, it is a logical inference from prior experience of how he works. He will fund a slew of paid/push polls until he sees if the expense bears any return. Carson whether he knows it or not is likely a trial balloon.

You do know that the Bush-Rove strategy has been revealed don’t you? And you should know that they are failing. Push polling Carson is a way of taking the shine off Trump’s support. It won’t work.

If the Monmouth poll is not a Rove concoction, then the expected and now dismissed results are probably originating from a defective sampling plan or in the nature of the questions themselves. Monmouth is not known to be strong. They are considered lightweight, heard only during periods of dead news or early day news.

All polls these days are riddled by non-responses. Some indication of accurate snapshots are indicated when most polls ‘hang together’, are consistent but even then some of them look at others perceived as more credible and they will skew results to fit the narrative but not look so out of sync with others.

These days. one much take into account social media, positives to negatives but even them many social media responses are robotic, literally, with fake profiles.

Then there’s the age old and worn indication of what people are saying at the local barbershop or beauty parlor followed by conversations at local markets and cafes. Taking those sentiments and aggregating them with observations taken similarly from across the country shared via social media, and factoring in poll consistency gives a little more accurate view. But it’s never complete.