Trump and Clinton Tied in LA Times Poll

[Ricky1121]

Any thoughts?

[Maxwell]

joke poll

it's the equivalent of Gallup continually showing Romney up.

[Fusionmunster]

Even L.A times has a disclaimer about the polls R-Bias. Its junk. All daily tracking polls are junk. How have we not learned that by now?

[Mehmentum]

It had Trump up 7 when rcp's average had him up 1.  So this is probably the equivalent to having Clinton up 6, which is close to what other polls are showing.

[afleitch]

The media like tracker polls because they link to think races work that way. That people watch 'the media' and follow each twist and turn and jump between options all thanks to their excellent work as 'the media'. It's the same reason why people pin all their hopes on 'black swans' that also don't tend to have much of an effect in a race. But races don't work that way.

Sifting a few thousand voters from the national pool and following them having fun with answering the same questions each day is an exercise in poll responses but that's about it. 'Oh something happened in the news today, I should answer to reflect that', when actually they've probably made their minds up months ago.

[Xing]

This poll looks like it'll be the Rasmussen of 2016. Trump supporters will cling to it when all other polls show Hillary ahead.

[Rand]

Says who? If the polls are phony the polls are phony. No cherrypicking, Baby Hands.

[Tender Branson]

Looks like a horrible poll if every other poll is showing Hillary ahead.

[Mr. Morden]

We already have a thread for the LA Times poll:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=240856.0