Posted on 08/26/2016 8:13:43 AM PDT by usafa92
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Friday shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by less than 1 percentage point.
The online poll shows Trump with 48.52 percent to Clinton's 47.73 percent after both candidates edged up slightly overnight. Correspondingly, the percentage of "other" voters, defined as anyone who did not select Trump or Clinton, fell to its lowest level to date, 3.74 percent.
Friday is the second-consecutive day the poll shows Trump leading Clinton by a slim margin. Clinton had led in the poll since the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention.
The UPI/CVoter online tracking poll surveys about 200 people each day, leading to a sample size of roughly 1,400 people during any seven-day span.
Over the course of a full seven-day sampling, Trump has gained 4 points, while Clinton has dropped 3.3 points.
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 18-24, when 1,720 individuals were surveyed. Of them, 1,187 identified themselves as likely voters.
Interesting dichotomy in polls. The online tracking polls all show a close race with a recent Trump lead. The media polls show in many instances large Clinton leads. This is beginning to be shown as fraudulent due to close and/or Trump leads in FL, OH, the recent PA poll, Iowa, etc. look for the national media polls to still show a sizable Clinton lead to maintain the narrative but with a gradual tightening of the race.
I thought scientific polls would have similar results...unless there is another agenda???
Well within the Margin of Lawyer as Mark Steyn would say.
Is UPI still owned by the Moonies?...............
Yes there is an agenda.
Wasn’t there a story around the time of the Democrat convention, that Reuters was changing their polling methodology, and that this change resulting in a big boost for Hillary in their polls???
If these polls are accurate, they should not be all over the place.
And they shouldn’t contradict each other.
For example, some recent polls in battleground states show Hillary with leads in every single one of those states.
But that’s impossible, if Hillary and Trump are basically tied nationwide.
Then you hear stories such as how polls show solid red states as Utah are competitive this time around. That also makes no sense in comparison with other polls.
If Trump is in a tight race in Utah, then Hillary would indeed win an landslide nationwide.
Realclearpolitics has gone to the Hillary/Dark Side. Still has Hillary ahead by 4-10 points. Useless.
Besides the natural flaws in the National Polls and the usual over sampling of Dems., let’s remember that a wide margin in favor of Hillary in States like CA, NY and MA Etc. can skew the National numbers. If trump will concentrate of the Battleground States of FL, OH and PA etc. he can win this thing. Remember, George Bush lost to Al Gore in the National vote, but won the electoral vote.
Yet, right now on FoxNews they are talking up the Quinipiac poll as evidence Hillary will have a massive landslide. What a bunch of asshats.
Even Fox Business and Stuart Varney chased me away today, all negative on Trump.
Hopefully, my Directv adds OANN soon to cover President Trump!!!
Oh, and the reason the Quinipeon poll says Trump is losing in every demographic is his bigoted rhetoric. Funny how that poll preceded Billary’s race card pivot/distraction by two days. No coordination there though, no siree.
FoxNews, how about being a bit objective.
United Press International (UPI), parent company is News World Communications, Inc, which is owned by the by Unification Church, which is the Moonies...............
I figure that the Republicans need at least a 10 point lead to overcome voter fraud.
RCP hasn’t gone to the dark side. They are just reporting the average which is easy to game if you throw in a couple of polls showing Hillary up by twenty.
Huh? UPI and LAT are MSM.
They run reputable polls and they’re not selling an agenda.
That said, no recent national poll has shown Hillary with that big lead.
Q poll is based on a questionable methodology.
If other polls begin showing Hillary over 50%, yes we can say she’ll definitely win.
But even Q isn’t showing her breaking 50%.
Its all bigotry, huh?
And Democrats never ever ever play the race card.
Which Hillary just did.
Clinging on to this poll because I want to believe it shows what others are missing...it’s crunch time and I’m SEMI worried knowing other polls have not been encouraging.
“2nd consecutive day of a Trump lead. I would be curious to see the results if they polled a 4 way race, which they don’t.”
That would be reality. To exclude Stein and Johnson is not reality.
How does this poll get any sort of R/D/I balance if the respondents “self select”?
Results not with standing, does this poll have any credibility? No one seems to cite it.
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