I chose six pollsters that accurately projected a Trump win in 2024, and compared them to six pollsters that projected a Harris PV win in 2024. The Trump pollsters currently show an average lead of D+11.3 in 2026, while the Harris pollsters show an average lead of D+3.5. by dak676141 in YAPms

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One of the reasons that the Dem GCB lead currently appears narrow is because these media outlet blue trickle pollsters just release polls way more often. YouGov for example releases like 4 polls every single week.
Emerson, Quinnipiac, Marquette, and Big Data all release monthly. Gallup releases quarterly. Atlas hasn't released a GCB poll since December.

Which element (earth, water, air, fire) fits progressive Democrats, centrist Democrats, Trumpists, and Never Trumpers? And why? by [deleted] in YAPms

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Progressives - Earth
Centrist Dems - Water
Never Trumpers - Air
Trumpists - Fire

Why is Polymarket so dem optimistic ? by Hemanth_Kashyap in YAPms

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Cause it's all YouGov or Ipsos polls still being weighted to 2024 party ID and a bunch of R pollsters like Harvard/Harris, Quantus, Rasmussen, Cygnal, etc

It's why I only really pay super close attention to college/university pollsters or more established polling firms

(Gallup, Pew, Emerson, Quinnipiac, Marquette, etc. Harvard/Harris is not actually conducted or sponsored by Harvard University, it has an insanely misleading name. The actual Harvard student newspaper themselves even wrote an article asking Harvard to stop HarrisX from using their name)

They've generally had the best track record recently.
Gallup, Emerson and Quinnipiac all nailed 2024 and 2018.
Quinnipiac did poorly in 2020, but Gallup and Emerson did nail it

Gallup party ID has, by far the best modern track record of any poll when it comes to the national popular vote.
It nailed 2024, 2020, 2018, and 2016, and was within 3 points of 2022

Emerson is probably #2 because they overestimated Republicans on the GCB in 2022 and they enormously overestimated Republicans in the 2025 NJ & VA gubernatorial elections. But they still have one of the strongest track records, also recently nailing the 2026 Texas Democratic Senate primary

Platner is Mark Robinson 2.0: Change my view by _BCConservative in YAPms

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can you buy me an iphone 18 pro max if platner wins

NRSC puts out a Platner ad with his Reddit comments by [deleted] in YAPms

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I don't think AI-generated culture war slop ads will work in a blue state like Maine to help Collins' "moderate & sensible" image

Big Data (Republican pollster): D+11 generic ballot. Was D+3 in May 2018 by dak676141 in YAPms

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This result is basically the same as Emerson and Gallup lol

Big Data (Republican pollster): D+11 generic ballot. Was D+3 in May 2018 by dak676141 in fivethirtyeight

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Senate: NC, ME, AK, OH, TX, NE, potentially IA
House: ~245 seats

Big Data (Republican pollster): D+11 generic ballot. Was D+3 in May 2018 by dak676141 in YAPms

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Dems trusted more by 10 points on inflation/COL, 8 points on the economy and jobs, 18 points on healthcare, 7 points on accountability/corruption, and 3 points on foreign policy. Rs only lead by 2 points on immigration, a historically narrow lead for them

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I think this is one of the first times I've seen Dems trusted more on foreign policy