HPU Poll assesses president's approval level

[TexasTowelie]

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)

[beachbumbob]

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

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

[TexasTowelie]

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

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]

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

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