SITTING PRESIDENT. POLLSTER ANN SELZER SAYS SHE IS REVIEWING HER POLL THAT PROVED TO BE WAY OFF. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON ELECTION DAY. IN AN OPINION PIECE WITH THE DES MOINES REGISTER, SELZER SAID SHE TOOK HER, QUOTE, BEST SHOT AT REVEALING THE TRUTH OF A FUTURE EVENT IN THIS CASE ELECTION DAY. THE DES MOINES REGISTER MEDIACOM IOWA POLL SHOWS HARRIS HAD A THREE PERCENTAGE LEAD OVER TRUMP DAYS BEFORE NOVEMBER 5TH. SELZER ALSO ADDS, QUOTE, THE TEAM AT SELZER AND COMPANY HAS BEGUN A REVIEW TO RAISE ANY PLAUSIBLE QUESTION OF WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THURSDAY NIGHT AND THE OF THE PREVIOUS WEEK, WHEN WE FINISHED INTERVIEWING AND WHEN THE VOTES WERE TALLIED ON TUESDAY NIGHT. SELZER SAYS
Pollster Ann Selzer says she's reviewing poll that showed Harris leading Trump in Iowa
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Updated: 6:02 PM CST Nov 10, 2024
Pollster Ann Selzer says she is reviewing her presidential poll of Iowa voters, which proved to be "a big miss" ahead of Election Day.Selzer wrote an op-ed that the Des Moines Register published on Thursday. In it, she wrote Selzer & Company, which has long conducted the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, "used the same method as the final poll this year to show a healthy Trump lead in both 2020 and 2016."The poll in question this year showed that Democrat Kamala Harris was ahead of Republican Donald Trump by 3 percentage points in Iowa. Trump actually won Iowa by a historic margin on his way to winning a second presidential term."The team at Selzer & Company has begun a review to raise any plausible question of what happened between Thursday night the previous week, when we finished interviewing, and when the votes were tallied on Tuesday night. That work has begun, but it will be a while before it is complete," Selzer wrote.FULL ELECTION RESULTS: PRESIDENT | U.S. HOUSE | IOWA SENATE | IOWA HOUSE | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | DALLAS COUNTY | GUTHRIE COUNTY | MADISON COUNTY | POLK COUNTY | STORY COUNTY | WARREN COUNTY | ESSENTIAL EMS | JUDICIAL RETENTION
DES MOINES, Iowa — Pollster Ann Selzer says she is reviewing her presidential poll of Iowa voters, which proved to be "a big miss" ahead of Election Day.
Selzer wrote an on Thursday. In it, she wrote Selzer & Company, which has long conducted the Des Moines Register/Mediacom , "used the same method as the final poll this year to show a healthy Trump lead in both 2020 and 2016."
The poll in question this year showed that Democrat Kamala Harris was ahead of Republican Donald Trump by 3 percentage points in Iowa. Trump actually won Iowa by a historic margin on his way to winning a second presidential term.
"The team at Selzer & Company has begun a review to raise any plausible question of what happened between Thursday night the previous week, when we finished interviewing, and when the votes were tallied on Tuesday night. That work has begun, but it will be a while before it is complete," Selzer wrote.
FULL ELECTION RESULTS: PRESIDENT | U.S. HOUSE | IOWA SENATE | IOWA HOUSE | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | DALLAS COUNTY | GUTHRIE COUNTY | MADISON COUNTY | POLK COUNTY | STORY COUNTY | WARREN COUNTY | ESSENTIAL EMS | JUDICIAL RETENTION
