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Speaking of polls, one comment about an annoying thing CBS does (this isn't about any polling results)

Posted by ty97 Oct 28 '24, 19:04

Maybe others do this too, but I've seen CBS do this repeatedly this cycle.

They release their polls results and say:
Presidential Candidate A is +2 nationally
Presidential Candidate A is +1 in the battleground states

We all know that national polls are only worth so much since we elect based on Electoral Votes, not the popular vote. But national polls are about the best proxy we have, so whatever, we use them, we're used to it.

But calculating a subset of states results to come up with a 'Battlegrounds' average? What an absolutely pointless statistic

Responses:

not to be unskew guy but it has been the case that Kamala polls well ahead of Joe’s 2020 margins in deep red states (when they’re actually polled) -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 28, 19:13 3
- herding is definitely occurring (to describe it charitably) -- nm - ty97 Oct 28, 19:15 2
  - even the Nickelodeon Kids Poll was only 52% (wtf you little shits?!) -- (link) - mr mooch Oct 28, 19:21 1
    - Obama only got 51% his first time! -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 19:24

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