*****Breaking LATimes /USC poll ********* Trump surges 50pt

[Cryptoad]

who are these idiots.....
it is the only poll RCP has reported the last 3 months that showed
Trump with even a 1 pt lead and
MSM has let this poll numbers push numbers
I thought teh polling had gone to hell in 2012
but I was wrong.
Now we have every polling troll on DU pushing these polls

"Makes my ass want a pinch of snuff"

[OhZone]

1. Why even report LA poll?

We know it's a flawed inaccurate poll.

Just ignore it.

:/

[MidwestTransplant]

2. If I'm not mistaken they poll the same group of voters

for every poll. This can obviously be good or bad. But if you end up with a group that sways one way from inception it throws it off.

[aaaaaa5a]

3. Yes. It's not s true poll. It's a survey of

the SAME voters each time to gauge their preference.

Nobody takes it seriously.

[mondonhill]

4. polling driving me nuts

You have to take the outliers out of the equation for a true number on both sides. If you notice LA times has been reporting basically the same number every single time going back months. On the other side we have to disregard ABC's 12 pt. poll.Both effect the RCP average. I think its 2-3 points nationally,but at this point states are all that matters.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

6. Agree 100%. Well Said (nt)

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. LAT has been consistently more favorable to Trump throghout the race

So next week we will learn of they are idiots or geniuses.

[Cryptoad]

9. yep,,,,,,, GAllup this time 4 years ago

Had Romney up 8 pts and surging,,,,,, they lost so much face u hardly every see a gallup poll any more......

[Algernon Moncrieff]

10. Gallup isn't doing horserace surveying this cycle

They say that it is to focus on market research (which is their bread and butter). However, I think they wanted to step back, observe, and dissect this cycle to see what they've been doing wrong for the past three cycles and fix it for the future.

[getagrip_already]

7. i think rachel m had something about their methodology...

apparently they don't have a lot of minorities or hispanics in their pool, so they give added weight to the ones they have. That gave one guy an incredible percent of their trump number. He would basically swing the number 2% if he was in the pool that week.

It sounded unreal they do that.

[4lbs]

8. LOL. A poll conducted in Southern California that has very few minorities, especially Latinos.

It's like if the Chicago Tribune was to conduct a poll and have very few Blacks or Latinos (who combined, make up almost 60% of the Chicago population).