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Surprise Fail – Reuters Announces Poll Changes To Help Lift Hillary Clinton…
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 29, 2016 | sundance

Posted on 07/30/2016 8:26:24 AM PDT by Bratch

 

Don’t say we didn’t previously predict this EXACT SCENARIO was coming as soon as the Clinton Convention was over.

:::YAWN:::

After Reuters polling showed a 17 point (two week) swing to benefit Donald Trump something urgently needed to be changed.

(Via Reuters) […] In a presidential campaign notable for its negativity, the option of “Neither” candidate appears to be an appealing alternative, at least to participants in the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.

Many voters on both sides have been ambivalent in their support for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, complicating the task of the pollsters trying to track the race.

That sentiment may help explain an apparent skew that recently emerged in the Reuters/Ipsos poll results. Given the choice, a relatively large group of voters opted for “Neither/Other” candidate compared with other major polls, leading to an under reporting of several percentage points for one or other of the two major contenders at times in the race.

As a result, Reuters/Ipsos is amending the wording of the choice and eliminating the word “Neither,” bringing the option in line with other polls.

The amended Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll will be published later Friday, available at polling.reuters.com.

From the beginning of June until the middle of July, the Reuters/Ipsos survey showed consistently lower support for Trump than other polls were capturing. At times, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton with a lead over Trump as wide as about 12 percentage points among registered voters – five percentage points higher than Clinton’s lead in some other comparable polls.

[…]  During the period analyzed, the historically high antipathy for both major candidates, paired with the option of selecting “Neither/Other,” meant the Reuters/Ipsos poll probably under reported Trump’s support before the Republican convention, perhaps by 3 to 5 percentage points.

So why the need to switch and correct now?.. Well, as Reuters openly admits, they need to help Hillary Clinton:

[…]  More recently, the “Neither/Other” option appeared to lead to an under reporting of Clinton’s support in the run-up to the Democratic convention, said Cliff Young, pollster and president of Ipsos Public Affairs, which partners with Reuters on the poll. The pollsters estimated the Clinton shortfall at 2 to 4 percentage points.

Tom W. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Society at the University of Chicago, said the earlier Trump numbers in the Reuters/Ipsos poll could have indicated a softness of support for Trump among a relatively small group of conservative voters who had yet to come to terms with his candidacy.

It is plausible that a similar effect among Democratic voters may be hitting Clinton now when presented with the option of “Neither,” he said. [snip]

Since the convention, however, Trump’s support seems to have solidified among wary supporters. Now, the “Neither” issue appears to be affecting Clinton in the survey.  (read more)

Oh, OK… Gotcha.  The problem was OK before – because it was making Donald Trump’s polled support look bad.  However, now that the issue has the potential to make Hillary Clinton’s polling bad, now,… NOW it needs to be fixed.

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Hey, look on the bright side; at least Reuters is honest about their dishonesty…. 

Methinks they deserve the Triple Penguin Award !

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillarypoll; mediabias; reuterspoll; trump
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1 posted on 07/30/2016 8:26:24 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

Lies upon lies and wrapped in more layers of lies.

The sick, twisted radical left trying like hell to invent the future...


2 posted on 07/30/2016 8:29:12 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Bratch

No need to vote in November. The Leftist media here and abroad can simply “deem” that Hellery is the First Queen of the USA. Democrats like “deeming” as you recall from the reign of Nancy Pelousy during Obamacare’s squalid birth.


3 posted on 07/30/2016 8:32:21 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: EagleUSA

I think they are worried because more detailed polling has Hellery even worse off and they don’t dare let that out....it is just like the DNC scandal emails...every liberal company and media outlet is all in because they ALL know how big the Supreme Court nomination is to their agenda!


4 posted on 07/30/2016 8:33:13 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: Bratch

9NEWS’ Brandon Rittiman sat down for a 1-on-1 interview with Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. (13 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww_gvwbJfpw&feature=youtu.be


5 posted on 07/30/2016 8:33:57 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Bratch

The only way the Butcher of Benghazi can win...she is so disliked, so mistrusted human that walks the earth, I think Hitler was more honest that this murderer is ....


6 posted on 07/30/2016 8:34:57 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Bratch

I can’t believe what I’m seeing here.

So since the polls recently show Trump with a narrow lead, now these pollsters are going to manipulate the polls, so that the polls show Hillary is ahead???

Maybe I’m too dense to understand, but doesn’t this defeat the entire purpose of polling, which I thought is to get a measure of where public/voters opinion is???

Heck, you could easily produce schlock polls which show HIllary winning a landslide. How can they say with a straight face, that these polls are legitimate, if they simply change the numbers to show Hillary ahead, regardless of what the actual results of their surveys show???


7 posted on 07/30/2016 8:37:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The purpose of modern polling is to manipulate the voting public as much as it is possible.
8 posted on 07/30/2016 8:43:54 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch

This makes no sense.

On election day there will be an option of neither (no vote) or other (one of the 3rd party candidates).

So why eliminate that from polls?


9 posted on 07/30/2016 8:53:21 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They are counting on the lemming vote .... that if people see that Hillary is in the lead people will want to vote for a ‘winner’.

There is some truth to this. Some people who are undecided until the last minute will vote for the candidate who appears will be the winner. People like voting for a winner because they then see themselves as on the winning side.

It’s odd but it is a thing.


10 posted on 07/30/2016 8:55:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Because Gary Johnson takes more from Hillary than from The Donald. That’s why they eliminate 3rd party


11 posted on 07/30/2016 8:57:05 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Bratch

Spend next week phone banking for Paul Nehlen http://www.paulnehlen.com/phones/


12 posted on 07/30/2016 9:05:32 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Bratch

bkmk


13 posted on 07/30/2016 9:07:57 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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To: Bratch; flaglady47; nopardons; Liz; onyx; MS.BEHAVIN; mkjessup; M Kehoe; NIKK; Maine Mariner; ...
The vast polling industry today has grown to be just as corrupt as the journalism industry and the global-warming industry.

Most "name-brand" polling companies are dishonest and manipulative and have their own political interests and agendas...and their agendas are NOT the public good.

The black art of today's polling is a money-grubbing scam perpetrated on a gullible public, propped up and propagandized by supportive, collaborative audio, visual and print media.....and financed by crooked politicians and groups.

For the most part, the only reliable and accurate polls are actually those private "internal" polls farmed-out by campaign staffs on behalf of their OWN candidates......but we don't get to see those.

Leni

14 posted on 07/30/2016 9:13:00 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Trump, White House.....Hillary, Jail House.....Bernie, Nut House.....Obama, Outhouse !)
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To: MinuteGal

The black art of today’s polling is a money-grubbing scam perpetrated on a gullible public, propped up and propagandized by supportive, collaborative audio, visual and print media.....and financed by crooked politicians and groups.

For the most part, the only reliable and accurate polls are actually those private “internal” polls farmed-out by campaign staffs on behalf of their OWN candidates......but we don’t get to see those.


Bump!!!


15 posted on 07/30/2016 9:18:21 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: HarleyLady27

Voter fraud.

True that. Hillary is so very much is disliked BIGTIME.


16 posted on 07/30/2016 9:28:44 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Bratch

Buried low in the story: In a four-way race, it’s a tie, 37-37.

BWA HAHAHAHAHAH.


17 posted on 07/30/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Bratch

Your .gif reminds me of BJBill at Killary’s coronation.


18 posted on 07/30/2016 9:57:08 AM PDT by upchuck (Why wish upon a star when you can pray directly to God who placed the star?)
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To: txrefugee

How about counting the votes? Many are electronic now. The clintons pay off some hackers to make every third trump vote a hellary vote. Too far fetched? Ha! And who would police and prosecute such chicanery? Our banana republic presidente? It would be raciss to bring up such a thing...


19 posted on 07/30/2016 10:07:11 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: LS

And that’s likely voters.


20 posted on 07/30/2016 10:09:27 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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