If these polling groups want folks to pay attention, they need to be a little more honest. The figures at the top of this thread are absurd. I don’t care how they developed them.
You can’t tell me that a guy that breaks Network records for viewership every time he is on, pulls in twenty to thirty thousand people at his events when others are lucky to pull in just 10% of that on a very good night, is just a few points above the next guy who won’t get network numbers to rise above normal, if they don’t outright drop.
There is a phenomenon concerning Trump, and all the spinning in the world isn’t going to explain it away.
Trump rests at around 30% and everyone else remains in the 10% range or considerably lower.
Produce another 50 polls showing Trump at 20% and others at 16%. Anyone with average intellect knows those numbers are not indicative of what is going on here, unless this is a case study in broad polling malfeasance.
The GOPe is helping pay for these Made-As-Instructed polls.
What used to be a small number of legit polling companies has ballooned into hundreds. Why turn down money when you make a 40-50% profit, after expenses?
“...unless this is a case study in broad polling malfeasance.”
I believe that is the case.
I have taken part in two polls.
One tactic of the pollsters is to ask the same questions in many variations until they get the answers they want.
The last poll I participated in was so blatant I now refuse to participate in any poll any where.
Even worse are the Clinton vs Trump match-up’s. In several states those don’t compute at all.