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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
With RCP you have to remember that they simply (and I stress simply) calculate averages of whatever polls they collect. And over an arbitrary period of (and I use this term lightly) observation. So it's a classic case of garbage in garbage out and it is an absurdly flawed and childish method.

If the polls they collect have flawed methodologies and flawed samples, the RCP average is useless.

Further, without any corrections taking into account how decent or bogus the core poll results are, RCP's numbers will always skew towards the results from the most egregiously flawed poll they include in their - again - very simplistic calculation.

10 posted on 11/02/2020 6:06:17 AM PST by Rudy_Johnny
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To: Rudy_Johnny

It’s been said cut in half any poll numbers of Bidens.


25 posted on 11/02/2020 10:34:20 AM PST by caww
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To: Rudy_Johnny

Polls also only measure “Likely Voters” That means people that voted in the last two elections. There is considerable evidence that Trump is attracting a significant number of unlikely voters, people that haven’t voted in awhile. This would considerably skew the results of any poll.


29 posted on 11/02/2020 10:51:27 AM PST by Fai Mao (There is no justice until PIAPPS is hanging from a gallows.)
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