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One of the big takeaways from the 2020 election cycle was that the polling industry had no idea what it was doing and was gaslighting the American people with lies about a massive groundswell for Democrats at all levels. And few in the polling industry has the ears of more liberal prognosticators that Nate Silver, the founder of analytical firm FiveThirtyEight. In his Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week, Silver placed the blame for grossly inaccurate polling on COVID, the Midwest, and Republicans.
Leading into the segment, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos played a soundbite of Silver from November 1 noting that there was a possibility “you could have a polling error of the magnitude of 2016.”
“[A]nd that polling error possibility he raised did pop up again this year. The margin in most battleground states is farther narrower than we saw in pre-election polls, underestimating Trump's support again,” Stephanopoulos conceded. This gave way to a prerecorded video of Silver delivering his “Do You Buy That?” segment.
Of course, Silver started off by trying to deflect and argue that the grossly inaccurate polling shouldn’t be an issue discussed right now and that they got the larger picture correct.
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