J. Ann Selzer Is Ending Her Election Polling Career Following Iowa Fail
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Selzer had already planned to part ways with the Des Moines Register prior to the election polling results.
J. Ann Selzer, who wrongly predicted Iowa would turn blue and vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election, is ending her polling career to take on new opportunities.
“Would I have liked to make this announcement after a final poll aligned with Election Day results? Of course,” Selzer wrote Sunday in a guest column for the Des Moines Register. “It’s ironic that it’s just the opposite.”
In the column, she noted that she had already planned to part ways with the Register prior to the election polling results.
At the beginning of November, Selzer, who founded her own polling firm, Selzer and Company, in 1996, predicted that Harris would earn 47% of the vote in Iowa to 44% for Donald Trump. Trump ended up earning 56% of the vote in Iowa, while Harris earned 42%. Selzer’s wrong prediction came as a shock to many, considering her track record is nearly spotless; as of September this year, FiveThirtyEight, a website that analyzes polls, had Selzer and Company at a 2.8 rating out of 3.
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