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Wed Jun 12 13:51:56 +0000 2019

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@BenjySarlin Huh? We spend *very* little time talking about general election strategy or polling right now, it's maybe 5 percent of what we cover. Primary polls *are* empirically somewhat meaningful at this stage so we spend more time on those. Other news orgs should follow our lead TBH. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 12, 2019 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@BenjySarlin It's June 2019. Campaigns' strategies for which states to compete in next November mean basically nothing right now. And if we don't know what those polls actually said, it's hard to know how much they're driving Trump's behavior, which is famously erratic anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 12, 2019 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I'm saying newsrooms should have minimum standards for when they report on polls and those should include exact numbers, dates, sample sizes, who conducted the poll, etc. Those standards should hold whether the polls are public or private. — PolitiTweet.org

Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait

You’re saying that if you were editor, and your reporter found Trump was briefed on internal polls and reacted stro… https://t.co/LLOT2oVfX1

Posted June 12, 2019 Hibernated

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