With the inclusion of this and today's other polls Clinton's margin on RCP (2-way) is +3.1. On Oct. 3 2012 (the day of the first Obama/Romney debate) Obama's margin was +3.1.
I don't understand why they keep adding the LA Times tracking poll. It's +Trump no matter what. Before they were just updating a single entry whenever a new one was released, but now they add a new entry for every new tracking poll and it's dragging her average down a decent bit. I only mention this one specific tracker because it seems like blatant junk.
The LA Times poll showed a Clinton lead for a good portion of August. And you can't just start excluding perceived outliers from polling averages without messing up the average. There are likely to be supposed pro-Clinton outliers on the other side that move the average the other way.
I also think talk of polls being "junk" is way premature. You really won't know which poll is junk until after the election.
