Polls. SurveyUSA/Boston Globe Poll released on October 14:  Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by ten points, 11. AP Poll released on October 26: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 14 points, 4. It was also one of the only polling firms to correctly predict Trump would win Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2016. Polls. New NC poll was released today, taken after the debate. The Georgia-based polling firm weights its surveys for “social desirability bias,” taking into account the idea that some Trump voters are afraid to be honest with pollsters. CNBC Poll released on October 27: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by nine points. Email us. The website’s polling averages show Biden with a lead of 7.2 percent nationally as of Election Day. “If Trump wins the polls were really, really wrong. @trafalgar_group @RobertCahaly, Full report here: https://t.co/Hd8SYFk1Az pic.twitter.com/PkphRgipjQ, — RestorationPAC (@restorationpac) October 15, 2020, Our new @trafalgar_group #2020Election #BattlegroundState #PApoll conducted Oct 10-12 shows Biden leading with:47.4% @JoeBiden,45.1% @realDonaldTrump,3.1% @Jorgensen4POTUS,2.6% all others,1.6% Und. Without getting conspiratorial, the RCP poll numbers from which the final RCP average (Clinton +2.9%) is derived give rise to two observations: First, two distinctly separate sets of polls … Fivethirtyeight uses fancy math to make their best guess based on available polling. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. Originally Posted by Smash255 RCP National average currently stands at Biden +6.7 Five Thirty Eight Polling Aggregate Biden +7.2 Five Thirty Eight RCP National Average: Trump vs. Biden - Elections - Page 37 - City-Data Forum President Donald Trump overcame Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s polling lead in four states during the last five days leading up to the 2020 election, according to averages maintained by RealClearPolitics. Recent polling by Trafalgar Group factored heavily into RealClearPolitics’ calculation for Georgia and Ohio. “Trump may win in the end, but that won’t vindicate RCP,” Cohn wrote. By contrast, Joe Biden has NEVER trailed Trump in the Real Clear Politics average of the polls. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. The final polling averages showed Hillary Clinton winning the three crucial swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016. Have a tip or story idea? RealClearPolitics - Election 2020 - 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination These averages were posted as of 5:00 a.m. Similarly, in the same time span, only three polls in RCP’s average have shown Trump leading in Wisconsin, and only one has had him leading in Pennsylvania, with two others reporting ties. 8. RCP Poll Average. 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A Des Moines Register poll conducted between October 26-29 was the most favorable to Trump, suggesting he led Biden 48-41 percent. Polls. The race is tightening, says 2016's most accurate pollster. The Radical Left Anarchists, Agitators, Looters, and just plain Lunatics, will not be happy, but they will behave! NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll released on October 10: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 14 points in a one-on-one contest and 11 points  in a four way race, 3. The final polling averages showed Hillary Clinton winning the three crucial swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016 — a fact critics of current polling point to as the presidential race enters its final stretch. Here’s how wrong the Real Clear Politics average of polls and the polling ‘gospel’ at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight were about the president’s polling numbers: “A really rough night for polls and a disastrous night for certain pollsters such as Quinnipiac who showed Biden doing so much better,” statistician Josh Jordan tweeted. Final RCP Polling Averages Had Hillary Clinton Winning MI, WI, and PA - The Polls are Fake just like much of the reported news. 9. Monmouth University Poll released on October 17: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 12 points, 5. Saint Leo University Poll released on October 26: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 11 points. Iowa: Trump vs. Biden. State polling averages are adjusted based on national trends, which means candidates’ averages can shift even in the absence of fresh state polls. Biden previously led polling in all four states, but saw his advantage dwindle in recent days. Polls. Pennsyvlania: Biden +5.6. But you don’t get that impression from RCP, since they’re not fairly reflecting the polls.”. As of the 25th, they had Biden with a lead of 6.6%. USA Today/Suffolk University Poll released on October 27: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by ten points in a one-on-one race and by nine points in a four way race. He was bullish on Romney in 2012, even going as far as saying the polls were weighted incorrectly (I believed that too then) and he was wrong. Several showed the former secretary of state holding a double-digit lead: 1. NC RCP Average Biden +1.2 Now NC is added to the states with increased RCP average for … In reality, Trump won Michigan in by .3 percent, Pennsylvania by .7 percent, and Wisconsin by .7 percent. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. RCP, from what I understand, pretty much takes a straight average over several days. Writing on Twitter, The New York Times’ Nate Cohn suggested the RealClearPolitics averages shouldn’t be treated as credible — even if they turn out to be correct. RCP National Average (2020 vs. 2016) | Top Battlegrounds (20 ' 20 vs. 20 ' 16) | Favorability Ratings (20 ' 20 vs. 20 ' 16)RCP Electoral Map | Changes in Electoral Count | Map With No Toss Ups | No Toss Up Changes | Latest Polls Gotta disagree with Newt on this. Michigan Presidential Polls 2020 vs. 2016. Polls. I will be shocked if Biden wins. The Radical Left Anarchists, Agitators, Looters, and just plain Lunatics, will not be happy, but they will behave!” Trump said in September: The Real Polls are starting to look GREAT! ABC Poll released on October 23: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 12 points, 6. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. And they also include polls from over two weeks ago, but their weighting depends on the quality and quantity of recent polling. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Our average includes all candidates that FiveThirtyEight considers “major.” Candidates with insufficient polling data are not displayed in the averages. We will be having an even bigger victory than that of 2016. Polls. Not all polling averages are created equal. This has advantages and disadvantages. Now let's take the differential in the 2016 RCP average for each state and add the difference to the current RCP state averages for this election. Here is a table of key states from 2016 comparing the final RCP polling averages to the final election results. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; Election 2020. [email protected]. Real Clear Politics Average of the polls: Trump/Clinton2016 vs. Trump/Biden2020 In the Real Clear Politics Average of the Polls, Clinton trailed Trump at two different points, May 22, 2016 to May 25, 2016 by 0.2%, and July 29, 2016 to July 30, 2016 by 1.2%. TL;DR: RCP only averages polls over the last two weeks. A snapshot of Saturday’s morning’s RealClearPolitics (RCP) average in each state is as follows: Michigan: Biden +7.2. 45.6. WATCH: Trucks Depart Pfizer Facility With First U.S. PRRI/Brookings Poll released on October 19: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 15 points, 2. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. President Trump Job Approval Politico/Morning Consult Approve 43, Disapprove 55 Disapprove +12 President Trump Job Approval Economist/YouGov Approve 43, … Polls. Since the beginning of the year, only three surveys included in RCP’s average have shown Trump leading in Michigan. Or to keep it anonymous, click here. ET, November 3, 2020. Bloomberg Poll released on October 19: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by nine points, 13. RCP calculates its average by looking back at the previous two weeks of qualifying polls, and producing a raw, unweighted average. Fivethirtyeight weights polls based on past performance and methodology. Atlantic/PRRI Poll released on October 9: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 11 points, 7. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 8, 2020. I’ll certainly be nothing but honest about that fact. Trump’s suspicion prompts a look at the 2016 polls, which famously had Trump losing the key swing states. Polls. Iowa: Trump vs. Biden. He also enjoys a narrow polling lead in key swing states, including .09 percent in Arizona and Florida and 1.2 percent in Pennsylvania. And as newer polls come out this week and the older ones fall off the overall average will tighten as well. Trump (R) +2.0. I won it all against Crooked Hillary! 47.6. Notably, Trafalgar Group, which Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RCP, has referred to as “one of the most accurate polling operations in America,” has recently had Trump and Biden statistically tied in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania: Our new @trafalgar_group #2020Election #BattlegroundState #MIpoll conducted Oct 11-14 still shows a thin Trump lead: 46.5% @realDonaldTrump,45.9% @JoeBiden,2.5% @Jorgensen4POTUS,2.2% all others,2.2% Und. As Breitbart News recently reported, over a dozen polls in October 2016 also showed Clinton with a sizeable lead over Trump nationally. Trump has publicly questioned the accuracy of recent polls repeatedly on social media. A snapshot of Saturday’s morning’s RealClearPolitics (RCP) average in each state is as follows: Since the beginning of the year, only three surveys included in RCP’s average have shown Trump leading in Michigan. Biden +4 in NC for the new poll. Biden enjoyed his greatest lead in the state at the end of July, when RealClearPolitics’ average showed him holding support from 50 percent of the state’s voters to 45.3 percent for Trump. See Report: https://t.co/dcPtMMUSpx pic.twitter.com/l1whvPtn1f, — Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) October 16, 2020, Trump is edging closer in Wisconsin, our brand new RP/Trafalgar poll shows. We will be having an even bigger victory than that of 2016. President Donald Trump overcame Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's lead in RealClearPolitics polling averages in four states in the final 48 hours leading up to the 2020 election. According to, I guess the guy who owns RCP, stated on foxnews tonight that the polls are tightening, especially the state polls. The website’s polling averages now suggest Trump leads in Iowa by 2 percent of the vote; Georgia (1 percent); North Carolina (0.2 percent); and Ohio (1.4 percent). RCP Poll Average. As of this writing, the RCP average has Biden up 7.7 points over Trump, more than half a point greater than yesterday’s update, while the FiveThirtyEight average … Biden’s lead took the biggest hit in Iowa, where he was leading the RealClearPolitics average by 1.2 percent as recently as October 30, after polls from Emerson, Quinnipiac and Emerson Advantage suggested Trump held the edge. The Democratic nominee’s lead in North Carolina — the most competitive state on the list — took a hit as a result of an InsiderAdvantage poll, conducted between October 26-November 1, that showed Trump leading 48-44 percent. Have a tip we should know? Trafalgar’s last surveys leading up to this week’s election suggested Trump is leading Biden by 5 percent of the vote in both Ohio and Georgia, provoking polling analysts on Tuesday to extend their criticism of Trafalgar to RealClearPolitics. CBS Poll released on October 17: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by nine points, 12. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. See Report: https://t.co/eLE6hjCZhO pic.twitter.com/Qwcd4z4Yk9, — Robert C. Cahaly (@RobertCahaly) October 13, 2020, 2020 ElectionPoliticsDonald TrumpHillary ClintonMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsin. RCP Poll Average. Polls are tightening as Election Day rapidly approaches, but few polls show President Trump enjoying a lead in the key Rust Belt states he carried in 2016. Final 2016 RCP Average: Trump +0.2, Results: Trump +1.2 (Trump +1.0 Ahead of Polls) Final 2016 RCP Average: Trump +0.2, Results: Trump +1.2 (Trump +1.0 Ahead of Polls) Polling Data “The Real Polls are starting to look GREAT! Wisconsin: Biden +6.3. Latest Polls; RCP National Average; Top Battlegrounds Average; Trump Job Approval; Biden, Trump Favorability; Fav/Unfavs vs. 2016; All Election Polls; State Polls; Senate Polls; Generic Ballot; Direction of Country; RCP Election 2020. 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