About those wild swings in polling that are averaged in ...

[AtomicKitten]

Last edited Sun Nov 15, 2015, 06:51 PM - Edit history (3)

For your consideration.

Guess who's polling on Hillary?
Mark Penn is no longer her campaign guru, but he's still testing the waters for Clinton.
Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/clinton-mark-penn-polling-214637#ixzz3rbGi4L10

Mark Penn is no longer Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster, but her former campaign guru is still putting polls about his old boss into the field — the ultimate insider is testing theories on how to make her electable during an outsider election.

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" ... is putting polls about his old boss into the field ..."

Example: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-3351.html

[demwing]

1. "testing theories on how to make her electable during an outsider election"

Such as "Ways to influence opinion through the use of polls"???

[randys1]

2. The GOP is planning on stealing not only the PRez election but many others.

This last election day, there was much activity


http://www.bradblog.com/


Polling will play a part in this.

[RandySF]

3. I don't see wild swings.

I saw Democrats taking a close look at Biden while he was considering a run. They went to Hillary when he decided not to run.

[wyldwolf]

4. Exactly there have been no wild swings

[AtomicKitten]

9. Here's a perfect example.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-3351.html

[RandySF]

10. Yes, around the time Biden dropped out.

[AtomicKitten]

11. that doesn't even begin to cover the huge span

face it, it's propaganda intended to mislead and screw with the aggregate

[RandySF]

12. No, it's the party coalescing around Hillary.

Covering one's ears and repeating "it isn't so" won't change that fact.

[AtomicKitten]

14. riiiight, just like that PPP poll released minutes after the debate that prescreened participants

and was commissioned by Correct the Record, Hillary's SuperPac

nothing fishy there

[RandySF]

5. Did he conduct every poll out there?

[99th_Monkey]

6. When it's "arms-length", it provides some plausible deniability cover.

Months ago, Hillary had already spent about $1 Million on "polling services" .. which
seemed really fishy to me.

What kind of influence might $1 Million buy in the polling industry? I don't know
the answer, but can't help wondering anyway.

[AtomicKitten]

8. It misleads and screws with the aggregate.

Right up Penn's alley.

[moobu2]

7. lol