Monkey Cage Covers Everything We've Ever Wanted to Say About Early Polls
Just say no to horserace coverage.
Poll coverage drives us crazy. Every day that a poll comes out, which is often every day, these days, it becomes a story. So many numbers, so much data, so much ultimately useless information. It’s as if reporters forget everything they know about polls in the space it takes to write a story about a poll that treats the poll like the secret key to the future of the elections.
In a post for the Monkey Cage blog, John Sides, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, explains exactly what is wrong with the poll-reporting complex.
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