Of course, you don't look at just one single poll to see if a polling firm is any good. You look at as many as possible.
538.com has a database of something like 300 polling firms going back decades to analyze the accuracy and statistical bias of each polling firm. They give Trafalgar a C- rating, meaning they are in the bottom quartile of polls.
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Another polling firm ZeroMoney - after reading their financial advice for years, that's how much money you would would have if you listened to them - cited was the Democracy Institute, whose polls also have Trump in the lead. It's true that the Democracy Institute predicted Trump would win in 2016, but they were still wrong in their methodology. They said Trump would win the national popular vote by 5% when in fact he lost it by 2%, way outside the margin error. That's the blind squirrel finding the occasional nut.
Finally, on Trump Shy Voters
First, I'm not making any predictions about the election whatsoever. I'm not saying Biden or Trump is going to win. Nor am I saying that that this theory isn't true. I just want to see if there is any empirical data to suggest that this "Shy Trump Voter" theory is statistically true. The...
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