Romney takes lead over Obama in Pollster (Huffington Post) average (campaign, thought)
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And according to Real Clear Politics, Obama has a 2% lead over Romney in their pollster average.
Methodological difference: Ras. runs a rolling poll, which current has Obama +2. Romney was up +7 according to them about a week ago. RCP only takes the results from the most recent rolling poll and averages them in, while HP seems to take the result of each rolling poll and includes it in their average. Which is stupid, because it's duplicating some of the same results.
You'd figure Sanrene would be all over this, considering how much she loves to "dig through the data." But I guess it doesn't count when the data says what you want it to say, right?
lol...Obama seems to have lost the Huffington Post as part of his cheering section. First, Oprah and now Arianna Huffington...he can't keep his fans it seems.
And according to Real Clear Politics, Obama has a 2% lead over Romney in their pollster average.
Methodological difference: Ras. runs a rolling poll, which current has Obama +2. Romney was up +7 according to them about a week ago. RCP only takes the results from the most recent rolling poll and averages them in, while HP seems to take the result of each rolling poll and includes it in their average. Which is stupid, because it's duplicating some of the same results.
You'd figure Sanrene would be all over this, considering how much she loves to "dig through the data." But I guess it doesn't count when the data says what you want it to say, right?
See how pointless this is?
I've always thought they should include older Rasmussen and Gallup polls. Though you are right that they should avoid polls that have overlapping data. But if you go a couple more days back, you won't have overlapping data and it will be about the same age as many of the other polls.
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