Posted on 10/20/2017 4:25:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Eddie Mush of politics, Bob Shrum, has written an article in the October 19 America magazine attempting to explain how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. Among the big reasons Shrum cites was overconfidence to the extent that the Hillary campaign declined to even poll the battleground states in the final weeks of the election.
Shrum rather incompletely attributes her overconfidence to a heavy reliance upon data analytics without mentioning that it was also probably due to almost all media pundits, including a certain someone very familiar to the author, predicting an absolutely certain Hillary victory:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I’m beginning to question the validity of all telephone based polling. Thanks to scammers and telemarketers, if I receive a call on my home or cell phone that I do not recognize I don’t answer. Anybody wanting to talk to me will leave a voice mail. I’m sure I received numerous calls from pollsters last election but did not answer the call because I didn’t know the numbers. I can’t be the only person screening out unrecognized calls.
Shrum is hubris writ large.
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