… We have known for a few weeks that Fox News and CNN are going to invite the top 10 candidates based on a national polling average. We also have known that CNN is going to have a secondary debate for those candidates who missed the cut but hit at […] Read more »
At least eight Republicans have a reasonable shot at the last two spots in the first 2016 debate
A new Fox News poll — with some unexpected findings — means it’s time to update our Top Ten Republicans graphic. … In each of the five polls we’re looking at, at least five and as many as seven of the 16 candidates identified are polling below the margin of […] Read more »
As Republican Debates Near, Candidates Vie to Make Cut
… The announcements by Fox News and CNN that they will limit the first two debates to candidates who rank in the top 10 in national polls has given the Republican Party a “Hunger Games”-type atmosphere. Facing the possibility of being excluded from the first nationally televised face-offs of the […] Read more »
Poll methods for presidential debates questioned
A scientifically questionable method of jamming opinion polls together could leave Ohio Gov. John Kasich on the sidelines of the first GOP presidential debate in his own state. While many already have taken issue with Fox News’ decision — backed by the national Republican Party — to take only the […] Read more »
The Math Problem Behind Ranking The Top 10 GOP Candidates
Sixteen presidential candidates talking over each other doesn’t sound much like good TV. CNN and Fox News know this, so when they air their Republican debates later this year, they’ll both limit the field to 10 candidates. Both networks will use polling data to limit the field to only the […] Read more »
Top 10 Reasons Why Polls Should Not be Used to Determine Eligibility for Debates
Herding is for horses. Not for pollsters doing horserace polls. Neither should the media herd the field in a political horserace via debates. Why? CONT. Lee Miringoff, Marist Poll Read more »