FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver defends 2020 polling

FiveThirtyEight founder and Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver is defending the 2020 cycle’s political polling despite misses nationally and on the state level.

In an article posted to his website on Wednesday, Silver said, “Voters and the media need to recalibrate their expectations around polls — not necessarily because anything’s changed, but because those expectations demanded an unrealistic level of precision — while simultaneously resisting the urge to ‘throw all the polls out.'”