Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff https://t.co/jJOop03slV
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She gone. Disgraced.
Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff https://t.co/jJOop03slV
— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2024
I said at the time this was her farewell gift to the Democrats and I love that if anything it motivated even MORE Iowans to come out and vote.TheBonifaceOption said:Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff https://t.co/jJOop03slV
— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2024
She gone. Disgraced.
TheBonifaceOption said:Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff https://t.co/jJOop03slV
— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2024
She gone. Disgraced.
TheBonifaceOption said:
Paul Krugman went on to have notoriety after he declared the internet to be a passing fad.
Always a place for her in the DNC,TAMUallen said:
She'll be back and lying again
Lots of wording tricks plus if they conduct the poll over the phone they are more likely to reach a Democrat and if they do reach a conservative many times they will basically tell the pollster what they want to hear so they don't appear "racist" for voting for Trump or not voting for Kamala.dmart90 said:TheBonifaceOption said:Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff https://t.co/jJOop03slV
— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2024
She gone. Disgraced.
Well, she had already resigned before this. I didn't think she's disgraced, based on her previous work. But she's not going out on a high note, for sure.
I have to wonder how the polling questions are written? How slanted are they?
Yes. But really how hard is it to poll a very red state and get close? Iowa is not a swing state, although she tried to pretend it is this cycle.mm98 said:
Wasn't her polling usually considered very accurate until this debacle?
Also admitted she had been massively overcharging the Des Moines Register, her client. So not only was she flat out wrong, she charged a crap ton of money to her client she didn't need to if she had updated her methodologies.Houston Lee said:
She became a national joke. No wonder she is hanging it up.
Yeah, that was jaw dropping. She was so blissfully unaware of what she was saying.IDaggie06 said:
All you had to do was watch the interview she did with that liberal Mark guy the day after her poll was released. It was shocking how clueless shew as on basic polling concepts and she didn't even know what R and D stood for in crosstabs. She lost all credibility in that interview.
You actually have it backwards - she published unweighted results because she admitted that she believes the sample she was able to obtain would match election results. The problem with that, is that her sample, based on recall vote, was 13 points more Democrat than the 2020 election results. She refused to take into account that Republicans were much less likely to answer pollsters.TheBonifaceOption said:
The raw data could have been pristine. The weighted results are what got published.
Lets say you did a poll and white males responded for 30% of the calls, but you know they are 40% of the electorate in Iowa. You weigh the responses from the raw data to give an estimated return of that demo for the published poll.