This poll on Hillary Clinton dropping out of the 2016 race is ridiculous
It is not only the poll that is upsetting but the fact that Bernie supporters sucked it up like sugar.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/25/this-poll-on-hillary-clinton-dropping-out-of-the-2016-race-is-ridiculous/
This poll on Hillary Clinton dropping out of the 2016 race is ridiculous
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By Chris Cillizza August 25 at 4:56 PM
In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to a home care worker during a roundtable discussion on home care in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
"SHOCK POLL: 46% Think Hillary Should Suspend Her Campaign..." reads the headline on the Drudge Report. Whoa, you think. The former secretary of state's political troubles in her 2016 campaign are way worse than even you thought!
I mean, maybe. The e-mail server issue Ia problem for Clinton as is the not-so-good way she and the campaign have handled it. But this headline -- and the Rasmussen Reports poll that it links to -- doesn't prove that half of the country wants to get rid of Clinton. In fact, the poll proves very little.
Let's go through the problems with the poll -- in no particular order.
1. It is of all likely voters nationally
Does it surprise you that Republicans think Clinton should suspend her campaign? It shouldn't. If you asked "Should Hillary Clinton immediately move to Mars?" my guess is that loads of Republicans would agree with that statement. I am certain Hillary Clinton and her campaign are not cowed by the fact that lots and lots of Republicans think she should suspend her campaign.
2. It is really badly worded, Part 1..................................
4. The survey’s methodology is not the most rigorous
Rather than a poll using a random sample of cellular and landline phones, Rasmussen’s automated surveys only dial landline phones and supplement this with a non-random sample of adults reached online. Results are weighted to a target population of likely voters, but the firm's surveys have struggled with accuracy and missed the mark in recent elections.
When you ask bad or vague questions, the data produced from those questions tends to be, wait for it, bad and vague. What the Rasmussen poll has "proven" is that 46 percent of likely voters are ready to believe something negative about Hillary Clinton.
Raise your hand if that surprises you. (No one should be raising their hand.)
Chris Cillizza writes “The Fix,” a politics blog for the Washington Post. He also covers the White House.............
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"SHOCK POLL: 46% Think Hillary Should Suspend Her Campaign..." reads the headline on the Drudge Report. Whoa, you think. The former secretary of state's political troubles in her 2016 campaign are way worse than even you thought!
It's in the DRUDGE REPORT? Whoa indeed! We'd better block that damn Iran deal, too, or Jesus is gonna kick our asses but hard!
