6 polls in 26 days. A paucity?
Not at all. Carly Fiorina moves from a 1% polling average before the August 6th debate, placing her outside of the top 10, to 5.4% today, good enough for 7th place.
And now she's just 0.2 percentage points behind the fading, though fresh-faced Scott Walker.
Source: Real Clear Politics
CNN Alters Debate Criteria, Which Could Help Carly Fiorina. (The New York Times, 9/1/2015)
The previous criteria would have given more weight to polls taken before the first debate on August 6.
In a statement, CNN said it was changing the original criteria because of a paucity of new national polls being taken between the Republicans’ first presidential debate and the planned September debate. [emphasis added]
In effect, the old formula would have heavily weighted polls taken in July and early August, before Donald J. Trump had begun to dominate the field and when establishment candidates like Jeb Bush and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin were in significantly better shape.
Fiorina's team had every right to be pissed.
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