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Originally Posted by JPhillips
Your mistake is in assuming the weighting is evidence of bias. Weighting is the hardest part of a pollster's job because they are trying to gauge what will happen based on trends and current voting info. They may or may not be accurate, but being wrong isn't evidence of bias.
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Agreed. Weighting is difficult because turnout is the great unknowable.
I'm not sure how one can really evaluate the op-ed, since the author does not really detail the basis for the demographic weights used in current polling or for the weights the author himself would apply.