dagblog - Comments for "Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats" http://dagblog.com/link/why-polls-tend-undercount-democrats-18990 Comments for "Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats" en I understand Dr. Sam Wang http://dagblog.com/comment/200412#comment-200412 <a id="comment-200412"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/200402#comment-200402">Or not, by Nate Silver.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I understand Dr. Sam Wang easier then Nate Silver's formula.  Sam showing it a toss up which is 49% D to 51% R.  He uses the median of all the polls.  He doesn't weight any of them or take the average of all the polls for the last couple of weeks.  He just uses the straight numbers.  </p> </div></div></div> Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:16:53 +0000 trkingmomoe comment 200412 at http://dagblog.com And Silver's latest on the http://dagblog.com/comment/200403#comment-200403 <a id="comment-200403"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/200402#comment-200402">Or not, by Nate Silver.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And Silver's<a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/"> latest on the Senate is bad news for Dems.</a><br />  </p> </div></div></div> Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:54:41 +0000 artappraiser comment 200403 at http://dagblog.com Or not, by Nate Silver. http://dagblog.com/comment/200402#comment-200402 <a id="comment-200402"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/why-polls-tend-undercount-democrats-18990">Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-might-be-skewed-against-democrats-or-republicans/"><em>Or not</em>, by Nate Silver.</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:48:51 +0000 artappraiser comment 200402 at http://dagblog.com