Linear Digressions

The 19-year-old determining the US election


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Sick of the presidential election yet? We are too, but there's still almost a month to go, so let's just embrace it together. This week, we'll talk about one of the presidential polls, which has been kind of an outlier for quite a while. This week, the NY Times took a closer look at this poll, and was able to figure out the reason it's such an outlier. It all goes back to a 19-year-old African American man, living in Illinois, who really likes Donald Trump...
Relevant Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-old-illinois-man-is-distorting-national-polling-averages.html
followup article from LA Times, released after recording:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-daybreak-poll-questions-20161013-snap-story.html
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Linear DigressionsBy Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

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