Monday, August 15, 2022

Took a while, but Walker finally ahead in a Georgia Poll...

This tracking poll once had Warnock at 50% 


Now obviously Walker is behind slightly in the overall polling averages at RCP and other places. But even in those polling averages, Warnock (the incumbent) is struggling to make it much higher than 47%.  On the flipside Warnock has the advantage of complete outlier polls showing him up by as many as nine points (he won't win by nine points). 

So yes... this is just a single poll amongst many. 

All that being said, I have always been a big fan of "tracking polls" as they generally show movement in ways other pollsters (who are polling maybe once a month) cannot track. So many variables can explain a swing between two polls taken weeks apart (most swings due to who who ends up in the sample). 

But a tracking poll generally moves fairly slow as these tracking polls are polling the same overall subset of people on a consistent basis.  So when you see movement, it is generally due to people actually changing their minds... rather than just randomly getting a new sample that happens to be better or worse for a particular candidate than the last sample. 

In this case, at least a good portion of the polling is the same sample of respondents that previously had Warnock at 50%.  To see a drop of about six points in a tracking poll is a big deal. A much bigger deal than a six point drop in a general media poll. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

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C.H. Truth said...

Seriously Reverend?

A YouTube video of Liz Cheney? (No I didn't watch it - I was just curious as to what legitimate video you felt was relevant to this thread.