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  • Can You Trust Trump’s Approval Rating Polls?

    02/12/2017 1:25:32 PM PST · by NobleFree · 63 replies
    FiveThirtyEight ^ | JAN. 17, 2017 | Nate Silver
    [...] Here’s the thing. The loss of trust mostly isn’t the pollsters’ fault. It’s the media’s fault. Oh, yes, I’m going there. The loss of trust in polls was enabled, in large part, by reporting and analysis that incorrectly portrayed the polls as showing an almost-certain Clinton win when in fact they showed a close and highly uncertain Electoral College race , especially after FBI Director James B. Comey’s letter to Congress on Oct. 28 . As my colleague Harry Enten put it a few days before the election , Trump was only a normal-size polling error away from winning....