2016 Presidential Polls Update: Donald Trump Still Ahead; Statistician Thinks Masses Should 'Stop Freaking Out'
The news isn't so new in the 2016 Presidential Polls as Donald Trump continues to triumph over his foes in the latest polls.
In a new poll by The Washington Post and ABC News, Trump is on top by a double-digit lead against his biggest rival, Ben Carson. The retired neurosurgeon's 22 percent is still a long way from Trump's 32 percent.
To make matters more shocking for some Carson supporters, the latest Fox News poll puts Trump at 28 percent, and Carson at 18 percent.
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The results come as a surprise to many people who have been following the presidential race. This is due to the previous polls that saw Carson almost neck-to-neck with the business mogul, giving Trump fans a little bit of a scare.
With the new polls that surveyed adults, it has only become more clear that a lot of Republicans believe in what the businessman has been saying for the past GOP debates, as well as the lengthy speeches he delivers during rallies.
Meanwhile, Nate Silver, founder of ESPN's Five Thirty Eight, says the media and the masses should "stop freaking out" about the results that put Trump way above all his Republican and Democratic frenemies.
Silver notes that there are still months to go before voters can decide which person they will put into the country's highest chair. He also says Trump's 25 to 30 percent that holds only about 25 percent of U.S. voters who identify as Republicans is still likely to be ousted by either Carson or any other candidate.
In his account, Silver says Trump's figures will need to go higher if he wants to win. This is because, according to Silver, "most people aren't paying all that much attention to the campaign right now." This could be true since polls are now largely varying in results, instead of keeping the numbers closely tied.
Probably the most reasonable part of Silver's account is when he mentioned that "voters are still in the early stages of their information-gathering process." This means a whole lot of changes can still happen in the following months, leading to the election, and voters can still defy Trump's odds of winning.
