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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Loosely speaking, I think it means they're working backwards, i.e. they know what result they want then engineer their sample, etc. to get there. The National Review article I linked earlier makes it clear they have lots of degrees of freedom in how they construct their sample. https://t.co/cC34RX4e9k — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 19, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Trafalgar's last 4 polls of Pennsylvania are Biden 48 Trump 46 B 47 T 45 B 48 T 46 B 47 T 45 It is not common to get such uncannily consistent results with 1000 person samples. And the same is true for their polls in other states. So what does it mean? https://t.co/CUzOqLLk4C — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This interview with Trafalgar Group really worried me, for instance. These are not conventional polling methods and… https://t.co/ZXB8NfYMRm

Posted Oct. 19, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

One tough balance to strike is that particularly theories for why Trump will win are often poorly argued and full of wishful thinking and/or cherry-picking, and so it's easy to want to rebut the particulars. And yet, Trump still does have a nontrivial chance, per our model. — PolitiTweet.org

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