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TexasTowelie

(116,491 posts) Sat Oct 3, 2020, 03:25 AM Oct 2020

HPU Poll assesses president's approval level

HIGH POINT — As with so much in this year’s presidential election in the battleground state of North Carolina, President Donald Trump’s diagnosis of COVID-19 puts politics in uncharted territory, High Point University Professor Martin Kifer said.

On Friday — the same day that the president told the nation he and first lady Melania Trump have contracted the coronavirus — Kifer and his colleagues released the latest HPU Poll on Trump’s job approval.

The poll finds that registered voters in North Carolina who were surveyed give the president an approval rating of 44%, with 50% saying they disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president. The remainder didn’t express an opinion.

The poll of 401 registered voters was taken Sept. 11-30 and has a margin of error of 6 percentage points.

Read more: https://hpenews.com/news/27110/hpu-poll-assesses-presidents-approval-level/
(High Point Enterprise News)

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HPU Poll assesses president's approval level (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP

6 point MOE? Are we talking +/- 3? Or +/- 6? beachbumbob Oct 2020 #1

I'm leaning towards +/- 6 percent. TexasTowelie Oct 2020 #2

My impression as well and polling world, is pretty worthless outside of just beachbumbob Oct 2020 #3

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)

1. 6 point MOE? Are we talking +/- 3? Or +/- 6?

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Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:03 AM

Oct 2020

As MOE typically is a +/-, not a set a number. I hate when clarity is muddled

TexasTowelie

(116,491 posts)

2. I'm leaning towards +/- 6 percent.

Reply to beachbumbob (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:09 AM

Oct 2020

To obtain a 3 percent margin of error at a 90 percent level of confidence requires a sample size of about 750. For a 95 percent level of confidence, the sample size would be about 1,000. While I don't know much about High Point University, I doubt that they have the resources to conduct a poll with such a large sample.

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)

3. My impression as well and polling world, is pretty worthless outside of just

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 3, 2020, 04:15 AM

Oct 2020

showing a trend. The lack of clarity was first clue indicating a d level polling outfit.

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