Media coverage of California's recall election highlights big issues with popular poll aggregation models
Polling has gotten more complicated. Models will have to adjust to work properly.
When I was a kid we had this dusty, boxy, grey television in our dark, carpeted living room. We didn’t grow up with satellite or cable so we’d spend a lot of time searching for public access programming — PBS’s NOVA series of science documentaries, mostly — that wasn’t obscured by a fuzzy mess of black and white noise. Frustrated, we’d get up to re…




