Do not believe the Sanders is up 6 !1!1!111!!! Thread

[vdogg]

It is complete and total BS. I'll post my breakdown of that manipulated crap they tried to pass off as real that I posted in GDP.

This source seems suspect. Below is the Reuters/Ipsos poll from the same timeframe that is posted on the 538 website and used in their calculations.

http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TR131/filters/LIKELY_PRIMARY15:1,PARTY_ID_:1

It appears that the person in the article manipulated the cross tabs and posted it as an actual result.

Here is the 538 link

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/national-primary-polls/democratic/

Scroll down to feb 19-23 and click on "Ipsos Online" poll

[Cha]

1. It was in LBN, too. I still didn't believe it.

[obamanut2012]

2. I just looked at it - the author of the article played with it

If actual and likely voters are put it, the results are very, very different.

[DemonGoddess]

3. Of course the author played with it.

Remember, there is a faction that would believe being behind by 10 points is actually a win. Losing a caucus by 6 points is a win as well.

We all know this is not true. We can do math, thank you.

[Tanuki]

4. Thanks. I guess they have to resort to that to keep the donations rolling in. n/t

[vdogg]

5. Got awfully quiet in there.

[workinclasszero]

6. You know when the bros have to resort to unskewing the polls

the end is drawing near

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. You made coffee go up my nose. Thanks for that. Speaking of "unskewing polls"...remember this guy?

[workinclasszero]

13. Lol sorry bout that

Yeah that dude is famous.

He had the republicans going for quite a while lol.

[Starry Messenger]

7. I thought they didn't believe in polls anyway.

[still_one]

8. It doesn't correlate with the state polls at all, and it is the states that determine

the respective party nominees and President, through delegates and the electoral college

That's why national polls do not really give an accurate picture of things

Also, these hypothetical match ups between possible nominees in a hypothetical general election are just that, hypothetical. It isn't real until we know who the nominees are

[dlwickham]

9. Polls don't matter to the bros unless Sanders is up in them

[vdogg]

10. My God!

They are still posting this bullshit....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511329032#post25

[Treant]

11. Ow.

Only in a very seriously stressed world could -7 for Sanders be interpreted as +6.

Tuesday evening and Wednesday are going to be interesting around here, to say the least.