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« Reply #425 on: September 21, 2016, 08:54:56 AM »

Despite it's immediately obvious shortcoming(s), this poll is actually useful.

That's what I've been trying to say this whole time Tongue

It's the classic illustration of precision vs. accuracy. The poll seems like it may be highly precise, and consistently inaccurate. It's like trying to hit the center of the dart board, but always being two inches down and to the left. But as long as you know that the bias is consistent, you can just correct for that bias and then you have highly valuable, useful information.

I tend to agree, but the fact that the recent shift towards Trump was driven by a huge swing among African Americans in this panel undercuts the "precision" argument a bit.
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« Reply #426 on: September 21, 2016, 08:59:08 AM »

Despite it's immediately obvious shortcoming(s), this poll is actually useful.

That's what I've been trying to say this whole time Tongue

It's the classic illustration of precision vs. accuracy. The poll seems like it may be highly precise, and consistently inaccurate. It's like trying to hit the center of the dart board, but always being two inches down and to the left. But as long as you know that the bias is consistent, you can just correct for that bias and then you have highly valuable, useful information.

I tend to agree, but the fact that the recent shift towards Trump was driven by a huge swing among African Americans in this panel undercuts the "precision" argument a bit.

Yeah, I was saying that under the assumption that the results were consistently biased. If they're not, that's a different story. Of course, the small sample size for AA's could be the reason for the funky-looking crosstabs. It's still possible that the overall results are precise, but the specifics when it comes to racial breakdown are wonky. That's why caution is always advised when trying to "unskew" based on crosstab data.
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« Reply #427 on: September 21, 2016, 09:06:25 AM »

Despite it's immediately obvious shortcoming(s), this poll is actually useful.

That's what I've been trying to say this whole time Tongue

It's the classic illustration of precision vs. accuracy. The poll seems like it may be highly precise, and consistently inaccurate. It's like trying to hit the center of the dart board, but always being two inches down and to the left. But as long as you know that the bias is consistent, you can just correct for that bias and then you have highly valuable, useful information.

I tend to agree, but the fact that the recent shift towards Trump was driven by a huge swing among African Americans in this panel undercuts the "precision" argument a bit.

Yeah, I was saying that under the assumption that the results were consistently biased. If they're not, that's a different story. Of course, the small sample size for AA's could be the reason for the funky-looking crosstabs. It's still possible that the overall results are precise, but the specifics when it comes to racial breakdown are wonky. That's why caution is always advised when trying to "unskew" based on crosstab data.

Oh, I agree... I just think we've all bought into the "accuracy" of this poll a bit too much. I'm not calling for unskewing, just skepticism of the idea that this method is better at certain things than we have any reason to think it is.
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« Reply #428 on: September 22, 2016, 02:17:03 AM »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/21) Trump +2.4%
Trump: 45.4% (-0.9%)
Clinton: 43.0% (+0.8%)

The bounce is clearly fading.
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« Reply #429 on: September 22, 2016, 02:38:34 AM »

Not good!
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« Reply #430 on: September 22, 2016, 03:31:40 AM »

Gonna bury my head in the crosstabs a bit, but a pretty sharp drop in support for Trump among voters under 34
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« Reply #431 on: September 22, 2016, 05:00:35 AM »

Old Formula Clinton +8
Clinton 48% (+3)
Trump 40% (-2)

New Formula Clinton +4
Clinton 46% (+2)
Trump 42% (-1)

Clinton's gains are larger than yesterday's, as the two biggest swing demographics in this poll (young people and rich people), all turn to Clinton.
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« Reply #432 on: September 23, 2016, 07:34:37 AM »

No update?
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« Reply #433 on: September 23, 2016, 07:48:11 AM »

Old Formula Clinton +8
Clinton 48% (+3)
Trump 40% (-2)

New Formula Clinton +4
Clinton 46% (+2)
Trump 42% (-1)

Clinton's gains are larger than yesterday's, as the two biggest swing demographics in this poll (young people and rich people), all turn to Clinton.

Wowie kaboodles!  Youngs are finally realizing that #FeelingTheJohnson is a flirtation with disease of the country. 
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« Reply #434 on: September 23, 2016, 08:04:32 AM »

so, StatesPoll, what do you think? Do they oversample millenial Texans with addresses ending in "3"? Wink
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« Reply #435 on: September 23, 2016, 08:21:46 AM »

Oddly, no. They haven't updated yesterday's numbers. I think they tried to, but somehow swung and missed. Neither the LA Times or the USC site has updated numbers yet.
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« Reply #436 on: September 23, 2016, 08:33:26 AM »

Oddly, no. They haven't updated yesterday's numbers. I think they tried to, but somehow swung and missed. Neither the LA Times or the USC site has updated numbers yet.

God, I hope they're not messing with their methodology or something. Fingers crossed this is just a blip.
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« Reply #437 on: September 23, 2016, 09:16:16 AM »
« Edited: September 23, 2016, 09:31:56 AM by Seriously? »

Oddly, no. They haven't updated yesterday's numbers. I think they tried to, but somehow swung and missed. Neither the LA Times or the USC site has updated numbers yet.

God, I hope they're not messing with their methodology or something. Fingers crossed this is just a blip.

This happened once before, but the LA Times got the numbers out somehow.

USC updated the data files when they were supposed to at midnight PST, but they didn't contain the 9/22 data. I am sure once it's early enough on the West coast, someone will notice the error and they'll fix it.
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« Reply #438 on: September 23, 2016, 09:49:49 AM »

Oddly, no. They haven't updated yesterday's numbers. I think they tried to, but somehow swung and missed. Neither the LA Times or the USC site has updated numbers yet.

God, I hope they're not messing with their methodology or something. Fingers crossed this is just a blip.

This happened once before, but the LA Times got the numbers out somehow.

USC updated the data files when they were supposed to at midnight PST, but they didn't contain the 9/22 data. I am sure once it's early enough on the West coast, someone will notice the error and they'll fix it.

Cool... I would anticipate a small shift to Clinton... yesterday was the last day that a big Trump day looked to be added a week ago.
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« Reply #439 on: September 23, 2016, 03:42:22 PM »
« Edited: September 24, 2016, 02:12:59 AM by Seriously? »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/22) Trump +1.4%
Trump: 44.8% (-0.6%)
Clinton: 43.4% (+0.4%)

Better late than never.
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« Reply #440 on: September 23, 2016, 07:11:48 PM »

Old Formula Clinton +5
Clinton 46% (-2)
Trump 41% (+1)

New Formula Clinton +1
Clinton 44% (-2)
Trump 43% (+1)

The race seems to be settling again. Most of the change in these formulas in recent days has been statistical noise. The next big change should be coming right after the debates.
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« Reply #441 on: September 24, 2016, 02:12:42 AM »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/23) Trump +2.0%
Trump: 45.3% (+0.4%)
Clinton: 43.3% (-0.1%)
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« Reply #442 on: September 25, 2016, 02:12:53 AM »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/24) Trump +4.1%
Trump: 46.4% (+1.1%)
Clinton: 42.3% (-1.0%)
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« Reply #443 on: September 25, 2016, 03:00:26 AM »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/24) Trump +4.1%
Trump: 46.4% (+1.1%)
Clinton: 42.3% (-1.0%)

Peryhaps Bump by Cruz's endorsement?
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« Reply #444 on: September 25, 2016, 03:01:42 AM »

He was up 7 in the LA Times a week ago. 
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« Reply #445 on: September 25, 2016, 01:13:44 PM »

So Trump lost ground among those samples that were affected by the birther issue and gained ground among those post NY Bombing?
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« Reply #446 on: September 25, 2016, 03:03:25 PM »

Old Formula Trump +17
Trump 53% (+5)
Clinton 36% (-7)

New Formula Trump +13
Trump 51% (+3)
Clinton 38% (-3)

Trump supporters have had a strong increase in enthusiasm (+0.9 to 84.1, Clinton supporters are at 83.3 enthusiasm, down 0.2). Young voters and rich voters are now back to Trump, and uneducated and male voters have swung hard away from Clinton. For some odd reason, black voters are having one of those pro-Trump swings again (due to enthusiasm, as I said before), but this doesn't mean we should discount the current trends.
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« Reply #447 on: September 26, 2016, 12:11:39 AM »

The shifts in the this tracker are almost entirely due to their weird seesawing in black support for Clinton. Really just a terrible poll.
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« Reply #448 on: September 26, 2016, 02:37:13 AM »

USC/LA Times national tracking poll (through 9/25) Trump +3.9%
Trump: 46.3% (-0.1%)
Clinton: 42.4% (+0.1%)
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« Reply #449 on: September 26, 2016, 03:32:14 AM »

My question is what demographics is the LA Times using?  Hopefully they're not doing what alot of pollsters did in 2012 and revert back to the 2004 demographics giving Romney a false lead. 
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