TimS comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong
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There's a lot of reasons to think that national polling is not predictive of a primary race
- First, the relevant decisions are made state-by-state.
- Second, the sampling issue for primary voters is much harder that for general election voters. Among other reasons, people are paying a lot less attention, so people who care strongly are probably more over-represented than is typical.
Yes to your second question. Also, winning one or both of the early primaries is not a strong predictor of who will be nominated in contested primaries.