Early polls don’t mean much. It’s still possible to report on them.

… We know from presidential general elections that polling this early is not correlated with outcomes in November. We know from presidential primary elections that poll surges are often ephemeral, in part because they reflect how the media covers primary candidates. For both reasons, we should discount where the candidates stand in current polls. CONT.

John Sides (GWU), The Monkey Cage

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