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"The Reuters news agency, which conducts frequent election polls, pulled two questionable tricks last week that appeared to be aimed at improving the results for Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
"First, it dropped the “Neither” portion from its presidential polls. The news agency then published a joint Ipsos/Reuters poll that showed Clinton leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump by five points. What it failed to highlight was that the poll relied on an oversampling of 899 Democrats versus 753 Republicans."
“This comes as close as I have ever seen to cooking the results,” longtime pollster Pat Caddell remarked to Breitbart on Saturday about these discrepancies. “I suppose you can get away with it in polling because there are no laws. But, if this was accounting, they would put them in jail.”
"First, it dropped the “Neither” portion from its presidential polls. The news agency then published a joint Ipsos/Reuters poll that showed Clinton leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump by five points. What it failed to highlight was that the poll relied on an oversampling of 899 Democrats versus 753 Republicans."
“This comes as close as I have ever seen to cooking the results,” longtime pollster Pat Caddell remarked to Breitbart on Saturday about these discrepancies. “I suppose you can get away with it in polling because there are no laws. But, if this was accounting, they would put them in jail.”
