Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico on poll results regarding illegal immigration: “Public opinion varies dramatically depending on the kind of illegal immigrant you’re talking about,” said GOP pollster Whit Ayres, adding that some undocumented immigrants, including those who came to the country as children, tend to garner much more public sympathy in surveys than others....
“Pollsters risk simply weighting the result back to the Biden-Trump contest.”
Polling and MethodologyVoter TurnoutWhit AyresOctober 30, 2024
Whit Ayres spoke with The Morning Dispatch newsletter about polling and weighting results: Whit Ayres, the president of North Star Research, told TMD that any adjustments, whether based on class, party, or previous vote, that try to account for these voters are necessarily unproven. “There’s no question that a nonresponse bias, which is simply a...
