Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

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

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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

"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

If pollsters want to sit out high-profile races that's their prerogative. It may align with their incentives. Pollsters get a ton of crap when they're "wrong" but little credit when they're "right" and that's a deterrent to doing more polling. Don't give me this RCV BS though. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 25, 2021