How Analytical Models Failed Clinton

… The reliance, or perhaps over-reliance on analytics, may be one of the factors contributing to Clinton’s surprise de­feat. The Clinton team was so confident in its analytical models that it opted not to conduct tracking polls in a number of states during the last month of campaign. As a consequence, deteriorating support in states like Michigan and Wisconsin fell below the radar screen, slippage that that traditional tracking polls would have certainly caught. CONT.

Charlie Cook, National Journal

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