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***** BREAKING*****HILLARY LEADS THE ORANGE HUED MUSSOLINI BY FOUR AMONG INDEPENDENTS (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2016 OP
This is excellent news molova Nov 2016 #1
Romney won them by five. If we are tied or slightly ahead among Indies we are golden. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2016 #3
Online polls don't stop being useless shit when they are good, or even realistic whatthehey Nov 2016 #2
Online polls * were some of the most accurate polls in 2012 DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2016 #5
Well there's a whole lot missing in that statement whatthehey Nov 2016 #6
You are never going to get a truly random sample with an internet panel. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2016 #7
Among independs it is 39% Hillary to 35%, that is what Bloomberg just still_one Nov 2016 #4
K&R mcar Nov 2016 #8
 

molova

(543 posts)
1. This is excellent news
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:04 AM
Nov 2016

It goes against an FBI-induced debacle narrative.
I believe Romney won independents, correct?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
3. Romney won them by five. If we are tied or slightly ahead among Indies we are golden.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:06 AM
Nov 2016

BTW, i sense another shift in the race, in our favor.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
5. Online polls * were some of the most accurate polls in 2012
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:08 AM
Nov 2016
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/the-most-accurate-polls-of-2012-148876





*Of course this assumes the proper controls are in place to ensure the poll captures what is a random sample.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
6. Well there's a whole lot missing in that statement
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:15 AM
Nov 2016

Starting with it applying to national final pre-election polls not independent subsets a week out, and also ignoring that they were some of the worst too. And remember, it's the methodology that makes them crap, not the (final save your dignity cherry picked) results. I could probably have a pretty decent guess what the weather will be like in Stockholm next week, but it would have terrible meteorological methodology.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
7. You are never going to get a truly random sample with an internet panel.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:21 AM
Nov 2016

But organizations like Pew, yougov, and ipsos reid are doing some good work.

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