Timothy Birdnow

Selwyn Duke takes a long, had look at the polling data and how it is weighted towards the Democrats.

While Selwyn agrees that there is monkey-business in summer polling he also argues (rightly) tht it's just not on anyone's radar in the summer so the people taking polls are just kind of like "whatever dude" when they are called.

Perhaps. Certainly good pollsters like Rasmussen or McLughlin seem to show similar polling errors in summer, buttressing that claim. But I would argue it is because these guys all use the same algorithms and the good pollsters get sucked up in the madness. I have no doubt these guys all look at each-other's findings and try to stay in line with them. There aen't many outliers, and when there are they are always in the Democat's favor.

Anyway it's a rather lengthy article and I've covered much of it here over the years, but do take the time to read it.

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