When Polls Obscure The Truth
On the Media | Jun 30, 2016
Last November, polls showed--or so it seemed--that Donald Trump held 25 to 30 percent of voter support. Nate Silver of the data news site FiveThirtyEight advised caution in taking those polls at face value: they were probably closer to six or eight percent, and could have been the result of trolling voters. Seven months later, moving out of the primaries and into the next leg of election season, we revisit his reasoning.
