NOTE: How to enter 2016 polls to the database (at the moment)

[Mr. Morden]

If Dave is serious about this "top 3 from RCP" thing (is he? or was that a Tender proposal that Dave just ran with), then he should probably say that that's what we're doing on the main polling page.  I mean, this thread is all well and good for those of us on the forum, but the audience for Dave's site extends beyond this forum.  If I went here:

https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2016/polls.php

and had never been to this forum before, I wouldn't really know what the data on the map is supposed to represent.

[Mr. Morden]

If Dave is serious about this "top 3 from RCP" thing (is he? or was that a Tender proposal that Dave just ran with), then he should probably say that that's what we're doing on the main polling page.  I mean, this thread is all well and good for those of us on the forum, but the audience for Dave's site extends beyond this forum.  If I went here:

https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2016/polls.php

and had never been to this forum before, I wouldn't really know what the data on the map is supposed to represent.

It's the other way round: Dave set up the 2016 database and entered a poll with the top-3 at that time and I just went with it and posted the criteria here.

OK.  Well, my underlying point stands.  In the unlikely event that Dave is reading this, my recommendation to him would be for him to explain his methodology on that polling page.  Because as it is now, it wouldn't really make sense to someone who hasn't read this thread.