Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Election Polls Edition, Part 2
On the Media | Sep 1, 2016
We've warned before against taking general election polls too seriously, too early. In fact, earlier this year we worked with our colleagues at the data news site FiveThirtyEight to produce Part 1 of an Election Polls Breaking News Consumer's Handbook. But with Election Day drawing closer, and growing skepticism over what the numbers show, it's time to take another look.
Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight speaks with Bob about how to parse the polling headlines from now until Election Day and about how headlines themselves can affect the polls.
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