PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic

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Why is bad nate weighting polls that are older and by worst rated pollsters higher than others

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/florida/#plus

Siena College from almost a month ago poll is higher than the more recent q poll and monmouth which has a better rating that Siena.
And the q poll is better and more recent than the highest rated polls.

Is he just randomly hitting keys on his keyboard or is there trend line stuff I'm missing
 
Teggy said:
Movement on that OH poll doesnt make it look as good
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Comparing movement in polls taken about 7-8 weeks apart is pointless

NYCmetsfan said:
Why is bad nate weighting polls that are older and by worst rated pollsters higher than others

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/florida/#plus

Siena College from almost a month ago poll is higher than the more recent q poll and monmouth which has a better rating that Siena.
And the q poll is better and more recent than the highest rated polls.

Is he just randomly hitting keys on his keyboard or is there trend line stuff I'm missing
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Sample size is the only reason that makes sense at all. Also TRENDZ and HORSERACE!!!
 
Nordicus said:
It just hit me that in this case, Trump's crazy fanbase who think he can do no wrong, may only make him angrier on social media because they can not stop praising Pence for his debate performance...

This is amazing.
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Is there any doubt that Trump is being catfished via DM on Twitter? Probably thinks he has Carville working for him in secret, but it's really a 12-year old from the burbs with a stuffed Pepe the frog collection.
 
NYCmetsfan said:
Why is bad nate weighting polls that are older and by worst rated pollsters higher than others

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/florida/#plus

Siena College from almost a month ago poll is higher than the more recent q poll and monmouth which has a better rating that Siena.
And the q poll is better and more recent than the highest rated polls.

Is he just randomly hitting keys on his keyboard or is there trend line stuff I'm missing
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Nate's weighting formula cares far more about number of voters than about the poll being good or recent.

Get the Drudge poll there, Nate.
 
Grief.exe said:
Ohio is nearly in the bottom ten states in the country for people with bachelor's degrees, and also has a disproportionately higher percentage of white population than the rest of the country.
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From my experience, people with a BS in Ohio move away, a lot to Colorado. Could even explain whey as Ohio goes more red, CO moves more blue

ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Sherrod Brown is going to get slaughtered in 2018.
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Brown is very well liked even by conservatives. My one employee thinks Reagan is one of the best presidents ever, hates Obama, and hates Hillary, but says she likes Brown.

Also, I think the key for Clinton in ohio will be the GOTV.

Side bar: Has anyone in Ohio that's requested a provisional ballot got them yet? I was told by the BoE that it would be early October.
 
Pence won debate in the short run, but probably lost in the long run.

Much of the narrative today is about how Pence won by essentially lying and running away from Trump. And every time they play one of Kaine's interruptions they also play him either attacking Trump or defending Clinton.

With only 36 million people watching, most people are going to hear about Pence running away from Trump and Kaine's attacks.

Kaine didn't do well, but strangely enough it might end up benefiting Hillary more in the long run.
 
Zukkoyaki said:
Comparing movement in polls taken about 7-8 weeks apart is pointless

Sample size is the only reason that makes sense at all. Also TRENDZ and HORSERACE!!!
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The mathematical link between sample size to MoE to probability is what determines the weights in that case. It's...sort of basic statistics and probability.

Right; I forgot - the volume of complaints about weighting is directly proportional to the result of the poll and how favorable it is to Clinton. :-p
 
blackw0lf said:
Pence won debate in the short run, but probably lost in the long run.

Much of the narrative today is about how Pence won by essentially lying and running away from Trump. And every time they play one of Kaine's interruptions they also play him either attacking Trump or defending Clinton.

With only 36 million people watching, most people are going to hear about Pence running away from Trump and Kaine's attacks.

Kaine didn't do well, but strangely enough it might end up benefiting Hillary more in the long run.
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I might agree with this overall. Kaine wasn't sent to win, he was sent to attack and force the discussion of why Pence has to defend or distance himself on Trump on some key issues.

I've never seen Kaine in that way before. Kinda refreshing.

While Pence's overall demeanor may win him the day, longer term it's a different story.
 
Cybit said:
The mathematical link between sample size to MoE to probability is what determines the weights in that case. It's...sort of basic statistics and probability.

Right; I forgot - the volume of complaints about weighting is directly proportional to the result of the poll and how favorable it is to Clinton. :-p
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The Drudge poll has 0 MoE, needs infinite weight.
 
Cybit said:
As they ranted about in a podcast - it's not actually a poll. :-p
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My point is that you can do really bad sampling techniques on a poll that make the poll bad and not worthwhile despite its high sample size.

Like, there's a Michigan, landline-only poll that called five black people total that came out a week ago... It was not a very good poll.
 
I think pushing the GOP as the party of Trump can work until 2020, but that'll be it. Until 2012 was about how long Democrats were able to paint the Republicans as the party of Bush, so I think the same time frame for Trump is realistic.
 
Holmes said:
I think pushing the GOP as the party of Trump can work until 2020, but that'll be it. Until 2012 was about how long Democrats were able to paint the Republicans as the party of Bush, so I think the same time frame for Trump is realistic.
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Then the Dems will push the GOP as the party of Curt Schilling or Steve King or Duncan Hunter or whichever NeoNazi the Trumpkins support in 2020.
 
blackw0lf said:
Kaine didn't do well, but strangely enough it might end up benefiting Hillary more in the long run.
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Definitely. It was a whacky debate where one person was trying to make himself look calm and collected and the other was going berserk on a sound bite harvesting mission for the presidential race. Kaine looked sloppy in the live debate, and didn't display great skill in rudely interrupting people politely, but he got what he wanted: lots of easy contradiction clips, and a display of a VP not defending their candidate at all. The full debate was meh, but cuts will favor the democrats.
 
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https://t.co/lebb63yTAP
 
Pence is clearly not presidential material, which IMO undermines the whole 'pence is running for 2020' argument. The better argument is that Trump's statements and behavior are basically indefensible, but he broke with the rest of the Trump campaign (which do try to deflect and spin his remarks, looking comically awful in the process) by simply not defending them.
 
HTupolev said:
Kaine looked sloppy in the live debate, and didn't display great skill in rudely interrupting people politely.
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A lot of this, I thought, was an artifact of the format. Pence was hogging up a lot of the 'free discussion' time and the moderator wasn't doing a great job time-keeping.
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
My point is that you can do really bad sampling techniques on a poll that make the poll bad and not worthwhile despite its high sample size.
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Except in order to qualify as a poll to be used in discourse, there are specific rules and guidelines you have to follow. AAPOR and NCPP are good places to start.

Silver goes into detail on some of it here:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-fivethirtyeight-calculates-pollster-ratings/

Also, being an anonymous online poll, there are no sampling techniques used...so you are trying to retroactively prove a point on something that the point actually isn't applicable to in any meaningful way.
 
jbug617 said:
So you think Trump is going to take the townhall serious because of Pence's performance?
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I think he took the first debate as seriously as he possibly could but the man's a prisoner of his own brain. His discipline seems to have an expiration of about 20 minutes or whenever poked with the right topic.
 
Fragamemnon said:
Pence is clearly not presidential material, which IMO undermines the whole 'pence is running for 2020' argument. The better argument is that Trump''s statements and behavior are basically indefensible, but he broke with the rest of the Trump campaign (which do try to deflect and spin his remarks, looking comically awful in the process) by simply not defending them.
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Well no one has said he would win the nomination in 2020, let alone the presidency, just that he looks like he is aiming to run in the primaries.
 
Holmes said:
I think pushing the GOP as the party of Trump can work until 2020, but that'll be it. Until 2012 was about how long Democrats were able to paint the Republicans as the party of Bush, so I think the same time frame for Trump is realistic.
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I think it can go longer than that 1) specifically within the Hispanic community, and 2) if Trump keeps an unhinged, high media profile after he loses, which I think is likely.
 
Nazgul_Hunter said:
A lot of this, I thought, was an artifact of the format. Pence was hogging up a lot of the 'free discussion' time and the moderator wasn't doing a great job time-keeping.
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Yea that's another point. This was supposed to be a back and forth discussion, not "one candidate gets a few minutes and the other candidate then gets some minutes to respond"
 
blackw0lf said:
Yea that's another point. This was supposed to be a back and forth discussion, not "one candidate gets a few minutes and the other candidate then gets some minutes to respond"
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It was more like, Pence talks for 4 minutes, then gets the next question, and talks for another 4 minutes.
 
I will say Hillary taking days off for this is really smart. Don't get too overconfident. Work super hard to finish this here.
 
shinra-bansho said:
Are we going to start freaking out about Trump prepping like mad now for debate 2?

Too much hopium?
Time for a comedown.
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If there's anything funnier than an unprepared Trump, it might be an over-prepared Trump. First of all, to start preparing in earnest after debate 1 is basically like cramming the night before the test. My guess is that an over-prepared Trump doesn't sound normal, but erratic and jumping around his talking points.
 
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