Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT Profile picture
Director @BIGDATAPOLL, Chair of the National Association of Independent Pollsters, host of Inside the Numbers with THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT.

Aug 13, 2019, 6 tweets

Funny, just heard @ChrisStirewalt claim the other day that Americans won't do these jobs. Guess that was about as accurate as @FoxNewsPoll and Fox's "Decision Desk" showing North Carolina leaning @HillaryClinton the day before Election Day.

It was pretty condescending, too.

@ChrisStirewalt @foxnewspoll @HillaryClinton Fox's "Decision Desk" also pegged Florida as leaning @HillaryClinton the day before Election Day. Then, @SkyNews actually projected my state incorrectly, and had to "un-project" it.

Wait... which network is their sister network, again?

No wonder they elected a Fox call in 2018.

@ChrisStirewalt @foxnewspoll @HillaryClinton @SkyNews When @realDonaldTrump said we'd soon be calling him "Mr. Brexit," @ChrisStirewalt mocked him in "Don’t kid yourself, the polls are usually right,” claiming he was headed for “the worst popular vote defeat since 1984.”

Not. Even. Close. But...
peoplespunditdaily.com/news/elections…

@ChrisStirewalt @foxnewspoll @HillaryClinton @SkyNews @realDonaldTrump But...

Isn't the most important observation that he missed how @realDonaldTrump could win the Electoral College, pretty handily, and still lose the popular vote?

In other words, don't really smart people see the implausible before they happen? And don't the mediocre miss them?

@ChrisStirewalt @foxnewspoll @HillaryClinton @SkyNews @realDonaldTrump For a “primer on the validity of polling” he cited “Nate Silver’s treatise on the topic,” which argued polls on the POTUS level have been right for generations.

“This is the dadgum presidency” Stirewalt wrote.

Lol. Neither hokey nor smart. Maybe stop pretending to be either.

@ChrisStirewalt @foxnewspoll @HillaryClinton @SkyNews @realDonaldTrump Btw, we were right about the polls being in 2016, and how likely it was for them to be wrong again. In 2018, they were wrong. States decide the president and...

state polls sucked.

They weren't accurate. They just pretend to be in the hope you forget.
rasmussenreports.com/public_content…

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