UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton
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
(45,806 posts)I think it's the ONLY poll that shows this result.
forest444
(5,902 posts)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
(23,148 posts)Online polls aren't really.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)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
(18,497 posts)Moonies. Hadn't thought of those freaks in years.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)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
(15,369 posts)Per Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International
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
(6,974 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)online poll, Hillary is REALLY crushing Trump!
And yes, UPI!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I don't think so.
PSPS
(13,601 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)MFM008
(19,816 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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
(543 posts)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
(2,606 posts)An "online poll"......Not representative of the voting public....
Tempest
(14,591 posts)...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
(70,242 posts)polls we look at.
alfredo
(60,074 posts)Results would differ if posted here. Posted on the Washington Times site would give the desired results in the Moonie's eyes.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)That was an odd little thing to post. Which camp are you in?
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)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
(60,074 posts)SCliberal91294
(170 posts)Nm
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)molova
(543 posts)?
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)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
(347 posts)That's the kind of polls I would like.