The Constant Attention to Individual Polls Is Hurting America

by John Sides on October 8, 2012 · 18 comments

in Campaigns and elections,Public opinion

This morning, Nate Silver tweeted:

Retweeting individual poll results is probably disinformative on balance.

Which I gladly retweeted.  And then came the new Pew survey.  I’m sorry, I mean THE NEW PEW SURVEY.  The collective reaction of political commentators can be summarized with the frontpage of the Huffington Post: