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To: goldstategop

My understanding is that all Silver does is compile polls that heavily oversample Democrats.


5 posted on 11/05/2012 9:30:25 AM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

close- he cherrypicks polls that figure in on his agenda....he’s gone out of his way to berate Rasmussen’s polls in the past even though the facts were on Rasmussen’s side:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/05/blast-from-rasmussen-past.html


9 posted on 11/05/2012 9:42:46 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Bingo! It’s clear that Silver understands numbers, but his underlying assumptions are subjective and shifting. The first red flag is the fact that he assigns a probability of victory. No pollster does that because that isn’t what pollsters do.


10 posted on 11/05/2012 9:43:24 AM PST by RIRed
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Yep. Garbage in, garbage out.


12 posted on 11/05/2012 9:45:52 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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