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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I think the incentives toward accuracy are pretty decent. It's easy to compare polls to one another and also to compare them against the actual result. And pollsters make a lot of claims about their accuracy when soliciting new business. Plus there's professional pride, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

@NateSilver538 Do they have strong incentives to be accurate? This has started to be the thing that worries me abou… https://t.co/tAi9jFLhnq

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I would highly doubt that 20% of pollsters would say you can get away without weighting by race, conversely, except perhaps in a state where almost everybody is the same race. — PolitiTweet.org

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You do encounter issues that also occur elsewhere in political media. For many outlets, most of the audience will consist of political partisans. Even for these outlets, though, polling is sometimes an avenue they use to bolster their claims of unbiasedness and objectivity. — PolitiTweet.org

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