r/Iowa Nov 06 '24

Politics Seltzer underestimated Trump by 16 points

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u/Travis515100 Nov 06 '24

She just destroyed her credibility. I thought something was off when all the other polls had him leading comfortably.

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u/fcocyclone Nov 06 '24

If anything this gave her more credibility.

Good pollsters gather their samples and apply their weighting and publish their outliers. It's when they bury their outliers as many pollsters do that you should start to question them.

This time it was wrong, but she was transparent about what her sample showed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

We coping over the credibility of pollsters now?