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13357485, This is not that hard
Posted by Lurkmode, Wed Nov-27-19 11:50 AM
>I feel like I'm losing my mind, but that article cites
>Emerson polls and discusses them at length with somebody who
>conducts those polls. When the citations link to Emerson's
>cite, they go to the following two articles:
>

Nothing here that should make you lose your mind.

>https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/october-national-poll-biden-sanders-warren-maintain-front-runner-status-in-democratic-primary
>
>https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/november-national-poll-support-for-impeachment-declines-biden-and-sanders-lead-democratic-primary
>
>I'm ready to make all kind of concessions that I read too fast
>or skipped over something important, but I haven't yet found
>anything in those articles about Trump's support among black
>voters. Like, I'm not saying that somebody is spinning poll
>data. I'm saying those two articles are about different polls
>entirely.
>

Starting with the second link in your reply.

If you you scroll down the page and look on the right side you will come to the word "Files" underlined. Beneath that word is Full Results and download. which means you can look at the questions and percentages of those who answered and how they answered. It's the poll.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see Caller ID with "The National Emerson College poll was conducted November 17-20, 2019 under the Supervision of Assistant Professor Spencer Kimball. The sample consisted of registered voters, n=1,092, with a Credibility Interval (CI) similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/- 2.9 percentage points...It is important to remember that subsets based on gender, age, party breakdown, ethnicity and region carry with them higher margins of error, as the sample size is reduced."


>Not even arguing at this point. Just want somebody to show me
>the actual poll that keeps getting cited because it's getting
>weird.

Here is guy on twitter talking about it.

https://twitter.com/v_theclash/status/1199449880072261632