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To: GIdget2004

Well, it’s an ARG poll, which are generally only slightly less reliable than a magic eightball.


19 posted on 04/04/2016 11:43:30 AM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: LiveFree99
Well, it’s an ARG poll, which are generally only slightly less reliable than a magic eightball.

Yes but this poll was conducted in the last 3 days, making it the only poll to have been conducted so recently. A pollster is rarely this far off. There is a sense that things have been tightening. A poll out last night (and conducted longer than this poll) found Cruz ahead by only 5. It could be that 4/1-3 has seen a real Trump surge. After all, Mr. Trump is campaigning his tail off in Wisconsin!

138 posted on 04/04/2016 12:24:24 PM PDT by No Dems 2016
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To: LiveFree99

One of these things is not like the other, not like the other, not like the other....

As much as I wish it to be true ARG is about as reliable as a meth head is showing up to work on time.


169 posted on 04/04/2016 12:35:29 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: LiveFree99; Pelham; onyx

Given Cruz leading I think 12 of the past now 16 polls in Wisconsin except the two Carson won way back....I think trump now has 4 and one of those 4 was a tie

I’m skeptical

Wisconsin was ALWAYS CRUZ’S TO LOSE

not this false narrative that Trump lost his lead in Wisconsin

That simply has not been the case

But about ARG

They are primarily a conservative polling group and have overweighed GOP respondents in last two POTUS generals which hurt them stats wise where as lib pollsters like WASHPO and ABC have been boosted by over sampling Dems like they do

ARG predictive plus or minus is .8
ABC is .7
IBD is .1.....the best
Massie is 1.7. one of the worst

ARG is in the bottom quarter of the largest firms accuracy wise but in the top half of the big 100 firms nationwide or better than average and it’s due to being GOP overweighed in general elections which won’t be the same issue in GOP primaries

And remember also the discrepancy spread we’re talking about here is much less than average margin of error

So it’s an exaggeration what you claimed

But I’m still skeptical anyway

Just on odds if Cruz has beaten Trump in 75% of the last 7 weeks polls you’d be wise to bet Cruz unless Trump won the last 4-5 in a row


367 posted on 04/04/2016 7:35:10 PM PDT by wardaddy (is Cruz last name a coincidence or a blessing or is he the anti Christ)
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