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There are a number of emails leaked from various election polling companies which indicate intent to spin the results and induce a particular outcome.
by ctdonath 10y ago
There are a number of emails leaked from various election polling companies which indicate intent to spin the results and induce a particular outcome.
- mach5 10y agosource? id like to read this
- bendykstra 10y agoUnsurprisingly, those turned out to be fabrications. Regardless, these models aggregate dozens to hundreds of polling organizations. If Monmouth tried to 'create a narrative,' as described in the purported memo it would just end up looking out of step and would lose credibility. > The "leaked memo" is a small test of readers' credulity. Written in apocalyptic terms, with strange capitalization ("the Liberal base is demoralized — but will become more enthusiastic the more Hillary is seen as an iconoclast who will overturn the last foundations of Western Culture"), it was uploaded to Scribd by a pro-Trump website with the confidence-inspiring name of RealTrueNews. For a short while, it was credited to Nate Silver; his name was blacked out, rendering it slightly less odd that someone who did not work for Monmouth was credited on a Monmouth polling memo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/21/fake-polling-memo-prompts-the-question-how-much-are-partisans-willing-to-believe/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09...
- 1337biz 10y agoThat would explain why campaign intern polling is always such a sacred ground.
- maxerickson 10y agoThere are simpler reasons. Being able to direct the polling is useful (spend resources on a given issue or not). Being able to spend more polling resources on close races. Having guaranteed access to the internals of the poll. Etc.