I'll just past what I wrote on X for those not on the platform. But this was a very important post about what Harry Enten does with his little segments on CNN, which is disruptive and harmful to political discourse and the polling industry. I will also link to the original tweet on X from @GenXGirl1994.

"Good attempt, one to be applauded. But with respect, still missing the bigger picture.

What Harry Enten does is essentially the opposite of what
@RCPolling / @RCPolitics does with aggregates and more importantly, what he's doing is the reason why aggregates are needed.

Let me explain.

But first, it needs to be said that Harry Enten polls nothing. Like Nate Silver before him, he is not a pollster and has no idea HOW to poll a population and is falsely presented to the audience as a polling guru.

He is not.

What Harry does is selectively cherry pick results from various pollsters who aren't even comparable in track record, methodology, etc. Essentially trustworthiness. He does not present his conclusions in proper context and they are frequently (likely intentionally) intended to mislead people with false conclusions at best derived from erroneous apples 🍎 to oranges 🍊 comparisons.

Of note, there are only a handful of us who polled the 2024 election correctly, and even fewer who have polled the Trump Coalition correctly for a decade.

Harry has never cited any of us.

The entire reason RCP designed the polling averages was to iron out errors and outliers to present a more accurate picture in the form of an average error.

As I take a chapter to explain in "Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Americans Really Want", this was BADLY needed for the industry, and literally saved the reliability of something so important as the generic ballot with the advent of their averages in the early 2000s.

He is literally cherry picking incomparable datapoints from incomplete datasets for headlines and deception. And he does so without explaining those differences and error track records. It is the OPPOSITE of what RCP, and now others such as DDHQ, are trying to do and it is harmful to the industry and public policy because it deceives policy decision-makers.

This is what explains his seemingly incompatible segments week to week. It's easy to dupe people into one conclusion just to defy it the very next week with an opposition view when you are doing that."

https://x.com/GenXGirl1994/status/2045531908721807367