Friday, February 17, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Trafalgar leaves deep and lasting stain on polling profession with off-the-charts dreadful performance in 2022 midterms

 
HeadlineNew York Magazine, 10/14/2022

Cahaly was a driving force in pushing a 'red wave' narrative in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections.
Their system is based on a model and numbers, and mine is based on understanding people. The biggest single thing is that a 25-, 40-, 60-question poll — when you’re trying to go deep down and understand issues, that can be a very effective tool. But asking 20 or 30 questions to get a horse race right is a joke. Average people will not participate. You will oversample college-educated people. You will oversample people who have lots of free time after a nine-to-five workday and not people who have various blue-collar jobs with strange schedules.

There he goes again!

When 1,092 respondents were asked their opinion for a Convention of States Action/Trafalgar Group poll, 78.8 percent said they were more likely to do business with a company that stayed politically neutral and tolerated viewpoints of employees and customers across the board.

Other right-wing wacko garbage pickers who trumpeted this nonsense include the Washington Times and the Daily Caller.

More Trafalgar fantasy polls:
January 2023
RULE #1: Never take a Trafalgar poll at face valve (RNC chair election edition).  (1/27/2023)
Day 61 of Robert C. Cahaly's self-imposed exile.  (1/7/2023)
FiveThirtyEight reports Trafalgar poll with a straight face.  (1/6/2023)

December 2022

November 2022
And then there were those Trafalgar fantasy polls.  (11/21/2022)
Since Election Day, we have been listening to 'The Sounds of Silence" by Robert C. Cahaly.  (11/16/2022)
Looking forward to Trafalgar's first fantasy poll of the 2024 GOP presidential campaign shit show.  (11/16/2022)
Senate race in Arizona.  (11/15/21022)
Senate race in Colorado.  (11/14/2022)
Senate race in Nevada.  (11/15/2022)
Senate race in Vermont.  (11/11/2022)

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