as is jimmy breslin, a writer and columnist for newspapers in new york city. each of these journalists was prominent in some fashion, in print or broadcast media. and as we shall see, all of them were suspicious as about election polling, even hostile, even vehement. hostile about election polling. all of them can be called pull bashers, vigorous or even harsh critics of election surveys. in considering poll bashing journalists will touch on presidential elections of 1948, 1952, 1980, 2008, 2016 and 2020. the polls in each of those elections were off target in some fashion in some way and as we've discussed, polling doesn't always happen the same way. in any case, these cases that we'll touch on sparked confusion, surprise, even disillusionment and no small, embarrassed for pollsters. so let's get going. let's step back. 70 years to the election of 1952. it was the first presidential election after polling debacle of 1948. pollsters then in 1948 had confidently predicted the victory of republican thomas dewey, then governor of new york, in election with harry

jimmy breslin, an election day column. 24. john kerry lost to george bush. george w bush by 2.5 percentage points was a close election pivot on the outcome of ohio that year, which narrowly, to george bush amid some dispute, amid some dispute about that outcome. so why all this periodic poll bashing among journalists? what explains this tendency that we've seen in the years past? edward murrow is a legendary was a legendary broadcast journalist, forties, fifties and sixties sixties. haynes johnson, mike royko, jimmy breslin. were pulitzer prize winners at one time in their career. they were all respected journalists. so what factors explain cross generation noel paul bashing. i'll offer three three factors. one is that pollings record of unreliability and inaccuracy see made it an easy target. journalists prominent journalists picking the polls, if you will, calling them out for their mistakes, their misfires, their errors. another factor, which we've seen from murrow to haynes johnson, is a dislike of the presumption is presumptive of polling. by that i mea

i as is jimmy breslin, a celebrated writer and columnist for newspapers in new york city. each of these journalists was prominent in some fashion. in print or broadcast media. as we shall see, all of them were suspicious about election polling. even hostile, even vehemently hostile of election polling. all of them can be called poll bashers. vigorous, even harsh critics of elections surveys. in considering poll bashing journalists, we will touch on presidential elections of 1948, 1952, 1980, 2008, 2016 and 2020. the polls in each of those election were off target in some, fashion's i'm way. as we've discussed, pulling failure doesn't always happen the same way. in any case, these cases that will touch on today sparked confusion, surprise, even disillusionment. and no small embarrassment for pollsters. so, let's get going. but step back 70 years to the election of 1952. it was the first presidential election after the pulling debacle of 1948. pollsters then, in 1948, had confidently predicted the victory of republican thomas dewey, then governor of new york state, in an ele

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