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NBC News Touts Own Post-Debate Poll on Clinton Bounce, but FiveThirtyEight says Be Cautious

by Spencer Irvine on

NBC News’ online poll conducted with SurveyMonkey claimed to show that Hillary Clinton won the debate, but even FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver’s outfit) said to be cautious. Silver wrote that Clinton should be up, but pointed out flaws with post-debate polling, such as some polls had a small sample size of respondents post-debate compared to pre-debate.


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