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Bob Morris's avatar

Daily email and long content sounds excellent.

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kpivert's avatar

Daily updates and a weekly wrapup would be great. Also, I enjoyed (as always) Gelman talking at the NY R Conference on your model and approach....and yeah, you know...the "discussion" on Twitter.

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G. Elliott Morris's avatar

Must have missed that. Maybe I can find a video somewhere.

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kpivert's avatar

Jared usually pushes the talks to the NYR site (https://rstats.ai/), but it's not up as yet.

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Martha Ture's avatar

I read Heather Cox Richardson's daily email. Sometimes it keeps her up til 4 am to write and send. Consider the commitment you are taking on, I would propose.

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G. Elliott Morris's avatar

Thanks Martha. That’s good advice. What I’m thinking about would never be as long as what she writes. I only wish I had as much energy as she does in taking on such a Herculean (and IMO worthwhile) newsletter

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WestCoastal's avatar

Either way is fine with me. If you go with the blog, I will put the feed in my reader (Feedly) and pick it up there.

If someone has subscribed to hear from an election pollster, I doubt they will care about getting more-frequent updates as we approach this momentous event no matter how you do it.

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Elliot's avatar

I'm fine with checking the blog regularly. One of the benefits of a blog post is that people can comment and interact, and hopefully we learn something from each other.

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Thomas Horn's avatar

Email is good. Too many things to have to check on is a drag.

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Chris Thomas's avatar

A daily email would be a great read on the bus or at the kitchen table with coffee. I am a big fan of your work !

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Ed Kako's avatar

A daily email would be great. It doesn't have to be long, but it would be helpful to hear your thoughts about how the race is evolving, how your model is responding to new data, and how you think the *issues* in the race should be covered, apart from the horse race.

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Carmen's avatar

whoever doesnt like the emails can unsubscribe? right? i am interested enough, but, honestly, i am so busy that I will forget to go read your blog. On the other hand, I for sure check email and yours stand out.

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G. Elliott Morris's avatar

Well, the idea is that I don't want to flood subscribers' inboxes and drive them away! But good to know about actually visiting the site. That's what I suspected.

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Carmen's avatar

Like Ed says, a daily email would be great. After all, LA Times and WaPo send way more than that and I havent unsubscribed yet. And if Trump dropped dead and you wanted to give a quick update on Pence's chances, we'll take a second email that day

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