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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Yeah, the claim that ranked choice voting is the reason that (some) pollsters are sitting out the NYC race strikes me as total bullshit, more or less. Rather, it's likely a fairly hard race to poll and they're afraid of being wrong. But that has very little to do with RCV. — PolitiTweet.org

Ross Barkan @RossBarkan

"RCV is too hard" is the reason the three major pollsters sat out the NYC mayoral race, as well as "turnout might b… https://t.co/pJ1mgSPGmR

Posted May 25, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

But IDK ^^^ that's liable to be a pretty unreliable heuristic (trying to triangulate private beliefs from carefully-worded public statements). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 25, 2021

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There's also been quite a bit of polling in the NYC mayor's race, just not much of it from the traditional "gold standard" firms. The same was true in the Georgia Senate runoffs and guess what happened? The polling did very, very well there. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 25, 2021