Re: Poll Fight!
RCP selects major polls and combines them together by population. Are you suggesting that RCP is using uncouth methods to combine polls? Are they part of the vast right-wing conspiracy do you think?
The reality is that you would prefer a polling site maintained by Obama supporters and I support a polling site maintained by centerist guys. I don't detect a bias in RCP averages, but I wouldn't because I am par of the Republican hate machine.
538 has a faq. Hurry up RCP, close up shop because you've been sniffed out!
What more do you need? RCP combines major polls by population and gets averages. How hard is that? What polls!!!? Where do they come from!!!?
Looking closer into the sites, 538 has biased editorial accompanying their polls whereas RCP has very little editorial anywhere near the polls. Jay Cost is a mastermind and is a major draw to RCP. Only time will tell if 538 has a mind like that on staff. Also, 538 says that they "handicap" polling averages within the larger average based on their subjective view of accuracy in polling historically. They claim this, but I don't see an explanation as to what qualifies polling as accurate or not before an election. Maybe I just missed it, but I'd like to see what each poll's handicap is and how they were rated.
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