UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton

[TomCADem]

Source: United Press Inc.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Friday shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by less than 1 percentage point.

The online poll shows Trump with 48.52 percent to Clinton's 47.73 percent after both candidates edged up slightly overnight. Correspondingly, the percentage of "other" voters, defined as anyone who did not select Trump or Clinton, fell to its lowest level to date, 3.74 percent.

Friday is the second-consecutive day the poll shows Trump leading Clinton by a slim margin. Clinton had led in the poll since the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention.

The UPI/CVoter online tracking poll surveys about 200 people each day, leading to a sample size of roughly 1,400 people during any seven-day span.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/26/UPICVoter-poll-Donald-Trump-maintains-slim-lead-over-Hillary-Clinton/4311472221679/

[napi21]

1. Sounds like an odd poll to me. If they're talking about national results,

I think it's the ONLY poll that shows this result.

[forest444]

29. Stands to reason.

It's owned by the outfit led until recently by CIA whore Sung Myung Moon. And hey, who says the government never created any billionaires!

[truthisfreedom]

2. What have we learned from this?

Online polls aren't really.

[Princess Turandot]

3. In case some folks don't know this...

Similar to the Washington Times, UPI (United Press International) is owned by the Unification Church, aka the Moonies. (Moon died several years ago: Wikipedia says that his wife now leads it.) In UPI's case, it's under a Moonie holding company called News World Communications.

CVoter is an Indian research/polling company. Odd choice for a survey of a US election IMO. Their accuracy rate in Indian elections looks a bit iffy, based on Wikipedia and some other web reports.

[alphafemale]

23. Thanks for the reminder. Because I was like.... "Dah fuq?"

Moonies. Hadn't thought of those freaks in years.

[Journeyman]

4. When was the last time you saw a by-line with a tag for United Press International (UPI)? . . .

I used to string for them back in the '70s but after it was acquired by the Moonies it largely faded from public and professional consciousness.

Is it still active as some sort of right-wing news feeder, maybe for the Washington Times?

[BlueMTexpat]

25. You've got it!

Per Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International

Current Ownership

UPI was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, which also owned The Washington Times and various newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America. The next day, UPI's White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, resigned her position, after working for UPI for 57 years.

In 2007 as part of a restructuring to keep UPI in business and profitable, management cut 11 staff from its Washington, D.C. office and no longer has a reporter in the White House press corps or a bureau covering the United Nations. UPI spokespersons and press releases said the company would be focusing instead on expanding operations in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, and reporting on security threats, intelligence and energy issues. In 2008, UPI began UPIU, a journalism mentoring platform for students and journalism schools, that allows recent college grad.uates to post their work on the site, but does not pay for stories.

As of March 2011, the UPI.com website reported that the organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with other addresses in Seoul, South Korea; Beirut, Lebanon; Tokyo, Japan; Santiago, Chile; and Hong Kong, China. The Santiago, Chile office was closed on November 1, 2014.

[LenaBaby61]

26. UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton.

UPI was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, which also owned The Washington Times and various newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America.

[BlueMTexpat]

27. Exactly! If it's that close in a UPI

online poll, Hillary is REALLY crushing Trump!

And yes, UPI!

[Iliyah]

5. Breibart/Gravis poll and this poll?

I don't think so.

[PSPS]

6. This is a fake "online" poll. Just click bait from UPI.

[stopbush]

7. Oh, THAT poll.

[MFM008]

8. another dumbass poll

[Hortensis]

9. Well, Tom, did you post this as an obvious outlier,

thus no need to point that out?

I notice 538 gave CVoter a C+ based on 3 polls, not the worst. Quinnepiac, with an A- rating, still has a 10-point spread in a 2-person race, the highest in the NY Times poll averages, with the lowest 3 -- except for this one -- at 4, average Clinton ahead 5.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/polls.html?_r=0

[molova]

10. Polling firm owned by owner of Washington Times

Preston Moon (son of right-wing loony Sun Myung Moon) owns News World Commuications, which also owns the Washington Times.
Our rules prohibit the posting of right wing sources.

[ashredux]

11. Key word....Online

An "online poll"......Not representative of the voting public....

[Tempest]

12. Online polls are NOT accurate

...most online polls that use participants who volunteer to take part do not have a proven record of accuracy. There are at least two reasons for this. One is that not everyone in the U.S. uses the internet, and those who do not are demographically different from the rest of the public. Another reason is that people who volunteer for polls may be different from other people in ways that could make the poll unrepresentative. At worst, online polls can be seriously biased if people who hold a particular point of view are more motivated to participate than those with a different point of view.

http://www.pewresearch.org/2010/12/29/how-accurate-are-online-polls/

[riversedge]

15. I look at the online ones with Large grains of salt. Trends are better no matter which

polls we look at.

[alfredo]

19. it depends on where the poll was posted

Results would differ if posted here. Posted on the Washington Times site would give the desired results in the Moonie's eyes.

[Tempest]

22. Results would differ here and be just as inaccurate. n/t

[alfredo]

24. True.

[dembotoz]

13. i continue to see the overconfidence of the hrc camp and du alarming

[MyNameGoesHere]

14. So you are neither?

That was an odd little thing to post. Which camp are you in?

[dembotoz]

21. i will vote hrc....i live in a very red area that will go trump like they always do for any gop

candidate.

i do not see the hrc landslide which seems to be the collective fantasy here.

i saw passion for obama
for hrc???? not so much

to paraphrase rather poorly...jim hightower....turn out is based on turn on.
if we get a 2010 turnout? say hello to potus trump

[alfredo]

20. That's always the danger. Run scared.

[SCliberal91294]

28. War Eagle

Nm

[Odin2005]

16. FAKE POLL

[Lurks Often]

17. The only polls that count are the ones that give us the results we want!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. lol. yeah

[molova]

31. Has Morning Consult ever accurately predicted an election?

?

[Lurks Often]

32. You missed the point

Regardless of the polling methodology, the only polls accepted here are the ones that show Clinton in the lead. Any poll that that does not show Clinton in the lead is either mocked or ignored.

[FigTree]

18. If I were in C's campaign, which I'm not,

That's the kind of polls I would like.