GET ME REWRITE: FiveThirtyEight reports Trafalgar poll with a straight face

 

FiveThirtyEight, 1/6/2023

Bobby's report card

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'straight face', as in giving no indication of emotion, and especially of merriment, occurred in 1853.

Other coinages from the same year include:

• and/or
• brain fog
• dartboard
• midadjust
• recheck
• self-negating
  
  

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Meet the pollster who convinced Republicans there would be a red wave.  (Slate, 11/10/2022)

The 'red wave' washout:  Skewed polls fed a a false election narrative.   (New York Times, 12/31/2022)

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