Poll Herding in Florida?

[The Other Castro]

This has been discussed in the polling board, but recently several pollsters have all come out of Florida showing Clinton leads of +4. All of these polls were taken between October 10-20.

Public Policy Polling: Clinton +4
Opinion Savvy: Clinton +4
Cherry Communications: Clinton +4
Quinnipiac: Clinton +4
Gravis Marketing: Clinton +4
Ipsos: Clinton +4

This could just be a coincidence, but this a lot of C+4 polls. Do you think pollsters are herding their results around a 4 point Clinton lead?

[Torie]

It's a bit premature for herding.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

We need to shut down all FL polling until we can figure out what's going on

[Dr. Arch]

Unless they're coordinating, these results were released near-simultaneously. It looks like the race is either heavily stable or this is just one of those unlikely coincidences.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

Unless they're coordinating, these results were released near-simultaneously. It looks like the race is either heavily stable or this is just one of those unlikely coincidences.

Yeah, but even the SD of one of these polls is a couple of %, not to mention methodology differences. This is just absurd, to have 6 polls within a % of difference...

[Speed of Sound]

If you're gonna herd, doing so at the exact same % doesn't make much sense. That would make it a bit too obvious, wouldn't it?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

A little surprised Trump people haven't seized on this as evidence of fraud/collusion/whatever.