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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

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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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

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I suppose the polls might sometimes be a small point of context in a larger story, in which case OK, but there's next to no news value in the polls themselves. As an aside, the genre of "what's making the president angry/erratic today?" stories is generally meh on news value. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 12, 2019 Hibernated