[Dan in Wichita]

I don't know why this author and so many other commentators place any faith in the RCP numbers. These numbers are based mostly on media-driven biased polls designed to inflate Democrat party strength.

On top of that, why is there an infatuation with RCP? Anyone with basic math skills can do what they do. I see nothing magical about them whatsoever.

What I am hoping for is a Trump blowout win next Tuesday. You would think that would expose RCP for the phony operation it is and send them the way of the extinct Dodo Bird.

I thought that would happen four years ago but they are still around, more powerful than ever.

[Beagle8U]

“On top of that, why is there an infatuation with RCP? Anyone with basic math skills can do what they do. I see nothing magical about them whatsoever.”

Exactly! They mix some fairly average polls with a bunch of wild-assed crap polls making them worthless.

It’s like buying a steak dinner in 5 star restaurant and then having a bus-boy spit on it at the table. Any value it had is lost.

[patriotspride]

On top of that, why is there an infatuation with RCP? Anyone with basic math skills can do what they do. I see nothing magical about them whatsoever.

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Average of averages with different methods. A fools gold

Faux with their map up with various commentators playing what ifs.

Only going to get worse as they play on emotions.

Tuesday we shall see if common sense prevails or hysteria and media manipulation have emerged victorious.

[Avalon Memories]

Any average is only as useful as the individual numbers being averaged. Garbage in means garbage out. So I have never thought the RCP thing made any sense.

[Go_Raiders]

The part that RCP bungles is uncertainty. If they are to treat all these disparate polls as valid data, then that means that the actual range of uncertainty is GREATER THAN the span between the lowest and highest individual polls in that calculation.

That makes it garbage. Any monkey could say that the results will fall somewhere within a dozen point range. It adds no value to anyone’s life.

[Arones]

An average of bad averages is....a bad average.

On average.

[mlo]

"I don't know why this author and so many other commentators place any faith in the RCP numbers."

The author is dismissive of RCP numbers. Don't know where you see his faith in them.

[KC_Conspirator]

Larry may not be saying it clear enough, but he is saying that RCP is biased and not to be taken seriously.