Controversy at FiveThirtyEight

Plus: Reading the tea leaves on older (and younger) voters, the decline of bellwether counties, and the new abortion voter.

No. 273 | June 30, 2023

🗳️ Elections

@NateSilver538: Very bad to do a Spanish Inquisition with pollsters based on their political orientation. I love my ex-colleagues (this is coming from a new guy they hired) but if this is their practice, hope ABC will stop use of 538 brand so it isn't associated with me.(Twitter)

Nathaniel Rakich: Introducing Our Brand-New Polling Averages (FiveThirtyEight)

“As you may have heard, there have been some changes at FiveThirtyEight recently. While it will be strange around here without our founder Nate Silver, his models and his oddly strong opinions about states, there are also some things that aren’t going away: namely, our commitment to rigorous data journalism and our mountains of polling data and trackers. 

In fact, we’re planning on adding even more of those polling trackers. Today, we’re releasing new polling averages of three Republican presidential candidates’ favorability ratings. We’re also launching brand-new versions of our trackers of approva…