Nate Silver on Consumer Sentiment Surveys and Online Shifts
Nate Silver claimed that the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey altered its methodology by shifting to online collection, resulting in samples with too many Democrats.
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“I think the University of Michigan survey changed the composition to online in a way that just has, like, way too many Democrats in the sample.”
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Heard on Odd Lots — “An Election Day Special With Nate Silver”, published Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.