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538 Closing

Righties are having orgasms tonight, forgetting that there are plenty of other polling sites.
 
Mycroft said:
Sorry folks, you'll have to look elsewhere for bogus averages of bogus polls. RCP is still around, right?
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Was today's additional market sell-off still winning?
 
In this great economy shouldn't companies be expanding and not contracting?
 
ABC news has been on the decline for years. I doubt this recent slate of downsizing will be the last.
 
They started aggregation in a mainstream way but plenty of other news sites do that now.
 
Mycroft said:
Sorry folks, you'll have to look elsewhere for bogus averages of bogus polls. RCP is still around, right?
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RCP is almost unchallenged now.

SNOWFLAKE said:
Righties are having orgasms tonight,
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With good reason.

538 was caught with a thumb on the scale during the last election. Once Nate Silver formally left, they gave up all their remaining integrity.

SNOWFLAKE said:
forgetting that there are plenty of other polling sites.
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No, there aren't.

Slartibartfast said:
They started aggregation in a mainstream way but plenty of other news sites do that now.
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Not really.
 
Here’s the economists’s

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
www.economist.com

@Jay59 - womp womp
 
Here is Nate silver’s

How popular is Donald Trump?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
www.natesilver.net

@Jay59 - womp womp x2
 
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Mycroft said:
Sorry folks, you'll have to look elsewhere for bogus averages of bogus polls. RCP is still around, right?
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Actually, 538 was generally pretty accurate. Not perfect, but more right than wrong.
 
Jay59 said:
The Economist is a sketchy inclusion in this conversation but Silver's new site is legit.

Both sites show Trump with around 50% approval which is not bad.

RCP concurs.

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Thanks for the props.
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Both are good alternatives to rcp which tends to be biased.

Also, you should try not to lie about easily verifiable things.

 
538 screwed the pooch in 2016. Polling for presidential elections is a joke. Always confident, often wrong.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
Gallop
Marist
Quinnipac
Rasmussen
Pew Research
Emmerson College
Morning Consult
ABC
YouGov
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Believe it or not Fox has decent polls.
 
multivita-man said:
Actually, 538 was generally pretty accurate. Not perfect, but more right than wrong.
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Oh...for sure. They were very good at reporting bogus polls...but that's about it.
 
Mycroft said:
Sorry folks, you'll have to look elsewhere for bogus averages of bogus polls. RCP is still around, right?
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Says the guy who still claims the 2020 election was rigged!
 
Mycroft said:
Oh...for sure. They were very good at reporting bogus polls...but that's about it.
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Funny, some of their fiercest critics were liberals.

>Our poll of polls shows a surprisingly close contest. In fact we give Donald Trump a 1 in 3 chance of beating Hillary Clinton.

>>OMG!!!! YOU'VE GONE MAGA! No, wait, you're just trying to get clicks! You just want more MAGA readers! Fake News!

 
Good riddance. 538 was nothing but a platform for Democrat hacks.

Mark
 
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