Just about everyone in politics uses them….
But as I have cautioned….
The RCP averages come from a Right leaning house ….
They are NOT entirely on the level….
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RCP’s averages this cycle just haven’t been a fair average of the polling that’s out there. Instead, cut offs are fairly deliberately set to show better results for Trump.
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Just go down the list of each RCP average this morning, and ask ‘are the cutoff dates consistent?’ and ‘who would benefit if the cutoff date was a day earlier.’ The answers are ‘no’ and Biden.
Nate Cohn
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This has been true for a while now, but they really took it up a couple of notches over the weekend. And unfortunately it’s enough that I won’t be using the site anymore for citing polling averages.
(I advise that RCP’s polling is suspect in my sidebar for this site)
image…Real Clear Politics