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To: gw-ington

RCP is the average of many leftist skewed polls, plus a few legitimate ones. Garbage in, garbage out.


14 posted on 10/03/2020 2:29:38 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: rfp1234
RCP is the average of many leftist skewed polls, plus a few legitimate ones. Garbage in, garbage out. In 2016, the RCP general election polls average predicted just before the election that Hillary would win the popular vote by 3.3%. In the actual election results, Hillary won the popular vote by 2.1%. Considering the margin of error, that's very accurate.
17 posted on 10/03/2020 2:35:51 PM PDT by gw-ington
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To: rfp1234

Many follow the RCP average of polls and so the game has been to announce a “new poll” showing a huge lead for Biden (or other lib) in order to pull up the average favoring Biden.

RCP uses the latest 6 polls (I believe) and averages them out. Adding 24 points to Biden’s lead by including these 2 polls would add significantly to Biden’s “average” lead since the 2 new polls displace the oldest 2 polls that both showed Biden with less of a lead.

We learned Friday that Biden was going out on the road after being basement bound for the past 4-5 months. If he is so comfortably ahead then why is he suddenly going out on the road to hold rallys that draw 10 people?


110 posted on 10/04/2020 10:38:25 AM PDT by billyboy15
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