UPI/CVoter poll: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump remain within 1 percentage point

UPI/CVoter ^ | 8/24/2016 | Eric DuVall

[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.

[usafa92]

Third day in a row essentially tied and the You/Gov poll at 42-38 Clinton. For the edge of the ledge crowd please stop. Things are going well. The bounce is over and the race is settling in until after Labor Day. And while I generally agree with Sundance, he's got everyone up in arms over his conspiracy theories with Conway. At this point, the team is on the field and Trump is Peyton Manning and Conway is Gary Kubiak. Conway can win the Super Bowl with Trump but she can't win it with Mark Sanchez. All this is noise. You have the best candidate playing the marquee position. Enjoy the road to victory.

[Red Badger]

The online poll ................

[goldstategop]

A tied race with a slight Hillary lead in UPI and USC/Dornslife.

One candidate or the other may eventually have a breakthrough but I suspect it won’t happen until after the debates.

As usual, at the moment Hillary is still the one to beat.

[dp0622]

can’t be. Reuters has her up by 12 as of yesterday. They disgust me and I am embarrassed to say that I was upset for several hours after seeing it. I need to stop that nonsense. that’s what they want to happen

[Flick Lives]

The online poll shows 48.35 percent for Clinton to 47.48 for Trump.

A perfect example of false precision. Measuring down to 100th's of a percent on a poll.

The more fundamental narrative is the polls will *always* show Clinton ahead, even if it is by fictitious 100th's of a percent.

[goldstategop]

Reuters?

You’ll have to ask why Reuters and UPI have such markedly different results.

Either Hillary has a big lead we’re not seeing or the race really is tied.

No one knows for sure the lay of the land.

[TakebackGOP]

Almost all the polls have shown her ahead when they’re very close.

[goldstategop]

Not entirely true.

Trump had a lead during the weekend and he lost ground on Tuesday continuing through today to Hillary.

Trump has led at times even when its close.

[Flick Lives]

Reuters has her up by 12 as of yesterday. They disgust me and I am embarrassed to say that I was upset for several hours after seeing it. I need to stop that nonsense. that’s what they want to happen

Exactly. Polls are propaganda. They're not intended to be informative or true. They're intended to push a narrative, drive page views, demoralize, and perhaps force candidates to spend more ad money.

Polls are also the laziest form of "journalism" available, so their perfect for today's lazy-ass propagandists. No researching a story or tracking down sources. Much easier to commission a poll, the more whack-a-doodle the better, publish it, then write up some boilerplate commentary on it. Zero thought process involved.

[dp0622]

Reuters is in the tank for hillary. THAT’S why there is such a difference.

I’m just one of the idiots who keeps letting myself get upset

That is ending now.

[Amish with an attitude]

I once had a vehicle with a broken gas gauge that acted like these “polls”.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

We must bury Hillary!...She cannot be allowed in the White House!

[Repeal 16-17]

The polls have them tied and yet the Liberal Media (in this case, including Fox News) continue to claim that Trump is in trouble. The propaganda is so bad that I can’t watch the news anymore. I want to see them choke on their words on Election Night.

[DoughtyOne]

Not buying the idea that Hillary Clinton is anywhere close to Trump in the polls.  That simply doesn't compute.


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[TakebackGOP]

A few times. I wouldn’t say many.

[LS]

.9 and net shift of 5 to Trump in last week.

[usafa92]

https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/latest-polls/election-2016/us-presidential-election-daily-tracking-poll/

I believe this is the same guy that was going LongRoom. Same basic methodology with populations weighted to census data by state/county. My guess is LongRoom probably got sued by one of the media entities for publishing their polls and calling BS on them. Trump is up by .9 in this poll. If you read the history on them they apparently had some pretty good success in the 2014 midterms.

[IVAXMAN]

Reuters are the ones that changed the weighting of the poll after they saw the Trump convention bump. This race is very close. Remember Reagan this time was down a few as well and we all know what the final results were :) Stay positive :) All other factors point to a Trump big win !!!

[IVAXMAN]

Huge, excited Trump rally crowds !!!

Media and polls can't weight out that !!!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The media and their polls... Up their nose with a rubber hose! Trump will win!!!