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Fiendish Thingy

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1. It's a deeply flawed poll
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 04:52 PM
Mar 2024

Not only did it oversample rural areas, it oversampled southern states (35%) and oversampled Republicans and undersampled Democrats (28%, when Dems represent 38% of registered voters).

Sample size of just 980, with a MOE of +/- 4%, when most pollsters aim for sample of 1500-2000 for a MOE of 3% or less.

The simplest way to know this poll was flawed was that it claimed Trump was winning White suburban women by something like 5-7 points!

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