From the YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP Department:
We all remember how Trendy and Company regularly relied upon flawed polling numbers during the 2012 general elections. How many times were we exposed to Trendy's flawed "Trending" projections? Apparently the Republican Party still has not figured it out. The House Majority Leader's stunning defeat yesterday serves as another example of the following:
"And many Republican pollsters already had a serious reputation problem from their 2012 performance."
From Politico:
Last Friday, Cantor’s campaign distributed an internal poll from John McLaughlin that showed him ahead 34 points over Brat. The firm, McLaughlin & Associates, said the margin of error for the May 27-28 survey was only 4.9 percentage points.
That same day, the Daily Caller published a poll from the new GOP firm Vox Populi that had Cantor ahead 13 points, 52-39, with 9 percent undecided.
House races are notoriously difficult to poll, but both of these surveys were embarrassingly wrong. And many Republican pollsters already had a serious reputation problem from their 2012 performance.
Brat won by 11 points, 55.5 percent to 44.5 percent.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...#ixzz34KisQm00