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The graph portrays 48.4 about 70% taller than 47.3
Yeah, it's disingenuous at least to fuck with the
y
axis like this1 percent is also assuredly in the margin of error. There's no way this is a significant difference.
It's a betting market not a poll, there isn't any "margin of error". This doesn't tell you who would win, it tells you what the website's users are willing to bet on.
In the post body, yes. But is the post image not poll results?
Dunno, it isn't labeled or sourced.
Well, OP calls it "swing state polling", to be fair :)
Take it up with the RCP people
yeah rcp's been going through a not-so-sneaky rightwards shift for a while lol
Like the actual platform or this data set in particular
Both- they’ve been putting more conservative think pieces on their news article section than they used to, and they also prioritize pollsters like Trafalgar and Rasmussen, which are run by qanon-lite guys