They cited a poll: Donald Trump
CEDAR FALLS — Donald Trump talks about polls a lot, explaining that he likes to do so because he’s winning them all. In the speech he’s giving tonight at the University of Northern Iowa, he has already cited a recent Gravis Marketing Research national poll, a Fox News national poll, an NBC/SurveyMonkey poll, a CNN survey of Iowa from December, a Quinnipiac poll of Iowa released this week and a Monmouth University poll of New Hampshire this week — among others.
As far as an approach to polls goes, Trump’s isn’t half bad: Citing a breadth of surveys is definitely better than picking out one poll.
But then he went off course. After spending several minutes concern-trolling Ted Cruz about his eligibility to be president, Trump mentioned a bunch of unscientific online polls to show that he won the most recent Republican debate. You can cite as many of those as you want, but it won’t make them representative, or meaningful.