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Related: About this forumThere's supposed to be a snap CNN poll released any minute now about the debate...
...How accurate and how subject to manipulation is a poll like that likely to be?
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There's supposed to be a snap CNN poll released any minute now about the debate... (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Oct 2016
OP
These snap polls are scientific but, as always, the devil is in the details.
Drunken Irishman
Oct 2016
#2
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)1. Not 100% accurate but better than online polls
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)2. These snap polls are scientific but, as always, the devil is in the details.
You've got to look at the party breakdown to get a clearer idea.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)3. We will have the answer to "Who One"
On Friday of next week.
molova
(543 posts)4. I prefer snap polls over next-day polls
Because snap polls may exclude the agreed-upon pundit narrative, whichever it may be.
Remembers, Pundits All Say The Same Thing is the golden rule of american journalism.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)5. They may drag that "any minute now" out to an hour
If past performance is any guide.
LSK
(36,846 posts)6. whenever Wolf says momentarily it means an hour from now
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)12. "Any minute"
I have lost sleep because of CNN's dribbling out of polls in past elections...