Posted on 08/24/2016 9:17:08 AM PDT by usafa92
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by less than 1 percentage point for the third day in a row.
The online poll shows 48.35 percent for Clinton to 47.48 for Trump.
Both candidates edged up slightly in the newest data compared to data collected a day earlier, though Trump has gained considerable ground on Clinton over the past seven days, the poll's full sample size.
Trump has gained 3.3 percentage points in the past week, while Clinton has lost 2.3 points, leaving the race in a virtual tie.
The UPI/CVoter online tracking poll surveys at least 200 people each day, leading to a sample size of at least 1,400 people during any seven-day span.
Because the poll is conducted online and individuals self-select to participate, a margin of error cannot be calculated. The poll has a credibility interval of 3 percentage points. This seven-day span includes data collected from Aug. 16-22, when 1,752 individuals were surveyed. Of them, 1,214 identified themselves as likely voters.
The upside: Down at the DNC they absolutely have to be buying Depends by the truckload these days.
The downside: That ditwad Gary Johnson might actually end up playing spoiler here.
I know the polls are weighted for Democrat, Republican and Independent...are they weighted based on electoral votes?
State by state polling using the exact same methodology is too complicated and expensive. Maybe unnecessary, as the three largest states’ EV votes are predictable: NY and CA to Dem, TX to Rep. (IL is a Dem lock.)
FL, OH and PA will be where the action is.
That's probably true, but for the media to come out and run with "nationwide polls" that show Hillary up by 2 points--when half the people in that poll might be from California or NY seems wrong.
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