Posted on 10/28/2015 10:57:46 AM PDT by BigEdLB
I know what you’re going to say. It’s an online poll. The sample is small, just 277 Republican voters. That means a margin of error north of six percent. Why should we trust a poll like that?
Well, you should trust it if you trusted it back in August when this same poll pronounced Trump’s lead sturdy after the first GOP presidential debate. That was an online poll too. Sample size: 278 Republicans, for an MOE of 6.7 percent. A lot of Trump fans at the time declared that de facto proof that the best laid plans of Fox News and Megyn Kelly to sink the unsinkable Trump had failed miserably
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I must be living in a bubble.
I don’t know one, much less 1 in 3, pubs supporting Dr. Carson
I don’t care who it shows in the lead. Online polls are crap.
It’s a shoddy take-down operation via polling.
Tonight’s debate is about economics. Any damn fool that thinks that Carson will have a clue about what he is talking about will have to wonder 10 fold where these results are coming from.
Rubio is surging..../s
OK I got that, so it was 40-18 Trump on Oct 17, and is 33-26 Carson Yesterday. A swing of 29 total. I guess that story of Trump doing something dastardly I missed.
I never believed on-line polls even when Trump is on top. They keep reaching for polls to show Trump down.
Next it will be Watters world respondents.
Candidates with high-profile names are hard to poll. Just ask Rudy Giuliani and Hillary last time. Early polls over-represent simple name recognition. As personalities and issues come into to focus for more people, polls are bound to change. And as real votes are counted, polls change again as people move on to considering candidates they were neutral about before.
Trump’s celebrity might have just given him an early poll advantage, and now more people are being cautious as campaigning becomes more routine.
What’s this? A bogus online poll that a Paultard isn’t winning?
How strange. Randy must REALLY be off his game!
I just polled myself. Trump won. Case closed.
Just as reliable as that poll, more reliable than the New York Time/CBS poll.
The left knows Carson can’t win so they are trying to help him.
I suspect tonight’s debate will be about taking the leading republicans down more than it will be about anything else.
Of course the fix is in, and has been for a long time. Trump is still the leader, this is just another attempt by the establishment in both parties trying to take out Trump and it will not work.
The American people are no longer playing the game and will vote with a clear mind and will turn off the establishment influence!
MOE of 6.7
Totally worthless poll.
If this was a natural outflow from Trump, then it would not just conveniently go to Carson (whom no one can pinpoint a reason for his popularity at all), it would have naturally gone to Cruz.
And even the vehemently anti-Trump/pro-Cruz people are oddly silent as he isnt picking up any numbers and is two points behind Rubio!
So maybe even they can get a clue and stop helping the press and GOPEs effort in trying to get Trump, because they dont want Cruz either!
Why? Things change, just like MSM/DC's level of desperation as the clock ticks. When things don't change in their favor, they have the motive and ability to manipulate change which is meant to sway votes and influence.
This is not complex.
Yeah. The smaller the sample size, the greater chance Carson will take the false lead. The fix is in.
What happpened to thousands of people being polled???
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