Tuesday, September 13, 2016

First Poll post

I was just looing around the three sites for polls, the New York times, real clear politics, and five thirty eight, and the first thing I realized was how varied all the information is. Some polls have Trump gaining ground and others having Clinton gaining ground. I think it may be hard to take out what the good polls are and what polls are presenting bad information.

I went to the New York Times site to look at polls and I really like the way the take all the polls from different sites and combines it all into clear information. On the Times site it takes information from all different states and shows who each state is favoring. This is a very good way to see who all the states are favoring this close to the election. It also shows how all the information for the poll was gathered at the bottom of the Latest Election Polls 2016.

The polls for this page do have some problems. It does not say who conducted the polls. This is just a preview for all the different polls but it also doesn't say how the participants of the polls were selected. This preview takes information from all the polls this site deals with to combine it into a more general view on the election polls so some of this information can not be provided.