Joe1991
DP Veteran
- Joined
- May 8, 2009
- Messages
- 1,829
- Reaction score
- 861
- Location
- TX
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
I'm not trying to say that PPP didn't do quite well in some past elections or that they're incapable of honest polling. I'm simply pointing out that when you have a polling company that openly admits its partisan lean, if their results contradict the unanimous results of other nonpartisan pollsters in a way that would seem to favor that company's preferred party, I would take it with a shaker of salt. Especially where it looks mathematically impossible.
Honesty, I haven't looked at the breakdowns of other polls, so I didn't know it was an outlier, I usually go with rolling averages like on realclearpolitics. This story was linked from a very legit site, and their numbers surprised even me. You made excellent points, and it just shows the need to double check stories even from "balanced" news sites.