re: #69 ObserverArt

I see the recent Quinnipiac polls are showing Hillary trailing Bush, Rubio and Walker in some key swing states.

I was looking at some articles on the polling and noticed when I did a Google search almost all of the hits were on major conservative sites. Now I know a poll like that would be heavily touted at conservative media so no surprise.

I would like to know, because I am not all that studied on polling and methodology, is Quinnipiac trusted generally and does it have any leanings right and left?

I usually try to go with an average of many polls so that I can hopefully count the biases as being averaged out. And, I also wait for polling closer to an actual vote. We are a distance off yet and the polls will be up and down a few times.

There’s an analysis of that on DKos. It says that while Q has an okay track record, they sometimes produce wild outliers. It also says that given her lead in national polls, for her to be in that situation in a few swing states would require unbelievable results elsewhere. Further, it would have requires HUGE swings in just a couple of months.

Over all, my take is to view with skepticism. Don’t disregard, and don’t fall prey to ‘Unskewed!’, but view with skepticism.