Chrisishardcore defends his estimates of the one-day results fromt the ARG tracking poll:
ARG's numbers are ultimately probably going to be wrong, so are Zogby's and so are everyone's. With two days left until the primary these 3 day tracking polls won't be able to accurately show late surges -- and that's what I'm trying to do.
But as I said in my earlier posts, even if you see a surge in the last day of a 3-day tracking poll, this could just be a routine blip in the margin of error--and blip are quite common with a margin of error of approximately +/- 7 percentage points. In other words, that late surge might turn out to be nothing. I'm not saying that Dean, or any other candidate, is or isn't surging. What I am saying is that absent some surveys with large samples, we just don't know. If Chrisishardcore's analysis turns out to be correct, it's more from luck than anything else.
Monday, January 26, 2004
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