Public service announcement: For now, you should ignore surveys testing potential Democrat/Republican matchups for the 2016 presidential election. …
I realize it’s tempting to believe that these head-to-head polls have at least a little bit of meaningful information in them. Poll numbers are irresistible to political obsessives like me, but it’s just too early for them to be useful in forecasting the general election. CONT.
Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth), New York Times
… but if you succumb: 2016 presidential matchups