Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

p.s. This only applies to 538, not RCP. If you *are* going to arbitrarily pick-and-choose which polls to include, then there's no good argument for including Ras & Trafalgar while excluding many other higher-rated pollsters. 538 has actual rules, though: https://t.co/37N8bDqsnB — PolitiTweet.org

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Rasmussen and Trafalgar are not highly-rated pollsters. I would not bet on them being right this year. But I think our *averages* are likely stronger for including a *dose* of them because it reflects a fuller consensus; that's what this thread was about. https://t.co/mjuuNDgLLl — PolitiTweet.org

@NateSilver538 It is ridiculous to include bogus polls like Trafalgar and Rasmussen, which game the system, includi… https://t.co/91syLj0c4W

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@NormOrnstein I don't think the Rasmussen Reports folks would say they've been happy about all the attention, positive and negative, they've gotten from 538 over the years. We can including them in our averages but also sharply criticize when it's appropriate (as it often has been with Ras). — PolitiTweet.org

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