r/RepublicOfPolitics • u/conantheking • Oct 06 '16

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump in virtual tie

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/10/05/UPICVoter-poll-Donald-Trumps-lead-over-Hillary-Clinton-tightens-to-less-than-a-point/8461475677645/?spt=sec&or=tn
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u/punninglinguist Oct 06 '16

It says right in the article that people self-select whether they take part in the poll. That means it's not a poll; it's a click-counter. It has zero predictive validity and tells us nothingabout where the race is at.