US pollster gives expert opinion on US election result | The Daily T Podcast

A special interview with the forecaster who’s correctly predicted the outcome of 9 out of the last 10 presidential elections.

Allan Lichtman is an American historian and pollster.

#politics #us #election

[midnightstrike]

Just here to mine salt, don't mind me!

[allenmorgan]

Lichtman comes across as highly egocentric. If anyone questions "his" system he gets upset. His most common term in every interview is "my keys." He is obviously biased towards Harris but refuses to accept that his biases may skew his answer for each question in "his system."

[thelimey]

He is very clearly putting his whole reputation on Kamala Harris winning - so let’s see what happens.

[SalesforceUSA]

3:25 Allan's behavior is unacceptable. He sould have handled without anger.

[makechips]

I think this guy dropped his keys while standing over a storm drain.

[DaveKent]

Wow.... Quite a sensitive ego on this guy

[timewellspent]

Fascinating that someone whose work is so objective can hold such utterly subjective opinions…

[jps]

Fairer to say he's a self-declared expert.

[Jacckh]

The word expert has truly evolved from someone who is objectively skilled and knowledgeable to someone who is politically aligned with the establishment.

[vavictus]

My best guess is he’s wrong this year.

What he’s doing isn’t a hard science. It’s not a law of gravity.

He’s talking like he’s an electoral physicist, but doesn’t have the formula. He has a pretty decent but imperfect model.

[jon]

Serious chip on his shoulder. That was ugly

[samaleks]

My favorite thing about this guy is that he claims to have an ongoing beef with Nate Silver and often calls him out... even though Nate Silver pays zero attention to him.

[JanetLClark]

Journalism has become politainment. It's not good and it's not professional.

[spectator]

His reaction tells me many people have attacked this guy or spoke over him too many times and he's learnt how to be aggressive recently to react like that.

British guy reaction handled it well.

[williamfrank]

Regardless of this guys predictions being correct the immediate outburst concerning his 2016 election (which he did predict the popular vote) and how he has indeed contradicted himself in the past is incredibly unprofessional.

[paulcarter]

Telegraph unconscious bias is rampant in this interview.

[josephcolacova]

He gets more and more arrogant over the years. It should be noted that Allan was wrong in 2000. He’s not undefeated nor will he ever be.

[sbkpilot]

well, at least he is going ALL IN, if he is wrong he is going to be discredit forever and the subject of ridicule, we'll see

[narensavani]

Why is The Telegraph hosting these cranks?

[CM-vebz]

I was willing to hear his opinion, until he said he didn’t understand why the news media keeps giving Trump a pass.