http://old.warisacrime.org/taxonomy/term/317/0 en http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>This week, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced what polls it will utilize in excluding candidates from its debates.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>The CPD says candidates like the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein must get 15 percent in polls conducted by “five national public opinion polling organizations” — ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation, Fox News, and NBC/Wall Street Journal.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>Not only — as several have correctly argued — is the 15 percent threshold arbitrary and exclusionary, but these polls don’t actually ask voter preferences at all.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>They all ask “If the presidential election were being held today for whom would you vote?” or some minor variation of that.</p> </div><p><a href="http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex#comments debates Election 2016 Elections polling third parties Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:52:29 +0000 samhusseini 70972 at http://old.warisacrime.org