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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPublic Policy Polling (PPP) wins the election night among pollsters again.
The goal of a poll is to get accurate results. And despite being characterized as a "left' or "Democratic" pollster, PPP continues to deliver really good prediction results. So far during the primary season, they have only missed one race.
Here are their final Wisconsin polling results and the actually vote % tally in last nights GOP Primary election.
What PPP told us:
Romney 43%
Santorum 36%
Gingrich 11%
Paul 8%
Final vote % (99% reporting)
Romney 42%
Santorum 38%
Gingrich 12%
Paul 6%
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Public Policy Polling (PPP) wins the election night among pollsters again. (Original Post)
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Apr 2012
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JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)1. Good info to have. Thanks.
Before the 2004 election, I followed Zogby religiously... until the few days before Election Day, when they were openly predicting a win for Kerry. All theories of a stolen election aside, if Zogby's predictions were correct, the election would not have been close enough to steal. In any event, I haven't followed Zogby since, nor has anyone else, apparently.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)2. Zogby had a terrible track record in 2008.
During the 2008 Presidential race I use to stay up until midnight just to get the Zogby daily tracking number right when it was released. But Zogby's track record has been so bad over the last few years, I doubt I will do that this time.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)3. WI was closer than I thought. Too bad Ricky couldn't post an upset
I still think Romney is a very weak front runner. To get only 42% against guys like Santorum and Gingrich and Paul.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)5. Think of how this election might be different
Santorum lost Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin by a scratch. If he had not had that bad week leading up to the Michigan, Mitt would be in serious trouble.
center rising
(971 posts)4. I used to follow Zogby as well, but
I find some of their questions highly questionable.