When the Polling Is Worse Than ‘Damn Lies’

Well, statistics can certainly include polling.

And so, we have learned this maxim anew this election cycle. David Plouffe, a senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the former campaign manager for President Barack Obama, admitted that the Harris campaign’s internal polling never had her ahead substantially, and that some of the pro-Harris public polling was just atrocious.

“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said. “I think it surprised people, because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.”

I can’t say I was shocked by this statement. Not at all.