Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like.
In a separate post, Trump complained in all caps about “fake polls” and said “something must be done about it,” adding, “FCC to the rescue!”
The posts were Trump’s most explicit efforts yet to direct the FCC to carry out his wishes. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee and close ally, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the matter.
I wouldn’t get too excited about Nate’s models…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/29/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-nate-silver-poll-prediction
Yeah, as I recall his prediction tightened up as that campaign went on, but I think it made a lot of folks complacent, and ultimately did more harm than good back then.
In June 2016? She probably did have an 81% chance of winning. I’m not a huge Silver fan but this is a really dishonest way to try to discredit him, and it also doesn’t understand statistics because that still gives trump a 1 in 5 chance to win.
Should Silver just start lying or stop printing his numbers because uneducated Americans don’t know how to read them? It wasn’t his job to help Clinton win.
I remember Clinton supporters telling me my vote want needed and they would win without progressives. I’m pretty sure that was a hell of a lot more damaging than Nate Silver.
100 percent.
polling, for the most part, is just another way establishment media shapes public opinion by preemptively announcing who is “electable”.
all they have to do is keep pushing headlines like “Latest Poll from Dogshit Analytics Shows Reasonable Americans Hate Socialism” and in-group / herd psychology does the rest.