John - The St. Cloud poll has such a long interviewing time (12 days!) and is sort of a one-shot non-professional, non-media-sponsored deal that few folks I know give it much prominence. (As you'll notice, I didn't, though Eric Black may have.)

Mark - Don't know about KARE. I think you can see the incredulity built in to my very first piece on the final HHH poll. Most reporters know the track record.

Jeremy - I think at some point, a big poll margin might depress the trailer's...

Ed, Rob:

Ed -- You might be right about the novices. But Ritchie and (I think) Hoffman don't fall into that category. I think there's as good a chance that novices get nervous on a set as they do talking into a camera, but we don't have any testimony on that.

I don't think the technical hurdles are quite as simple as you make them out to be, but I guess Almanac does it this way every week.

I agree this is all from the station's p.o.v. But the issue is intent, and I trust...

Joe - bad argument. SUSA added cellphones to their final, very-accurate poll, so they obviously felt compelled to change their methodology due to *legitimate* methodological criticism. HHH didn't have them.

I guess if you're going to conflate criticism and questioning for ripping, then I did. But I suspect most readers understand the difference.

By the way, the other methodological analysis I did was on likely voter models. I didn't criticize SUSA there, but explained their...

Craig - I make no claims to be objective. There are enough questions about Election Integrity's motives and partisanship (talk about unobjective!) to render the quote marks.