This is crazy, the Des Moines Register isn’t releasing a poll just ahead of the Iowa caucus, just because the Buttigieg campaign complained over ONE survey question in the poll!
More from the Des Moines Register:
The Des Moines Register, CNN and Selzer & Co. have made the decision to not release the final installment of the CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll as planned Saturday evening.
Nothing is more important to the Register and its polling partners than the integrity of the Iowa Poll. Today, a respondent raised an issue with the way the survey was administered, which could have compromised the results of the poll. It appears a candidate’s name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate.
While this appears to be isolated to one surveyor, that could not be confirmed with certainty. Therefore, out of an abundance of caution, the partners made the difficult decision not to move forward with releasing the poll. The poll was the last one scheduled by the polling partners before the first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential caucuses, which are Monday.
I’m seeing different explanations as to why it was canceled:
And weird conspiracy theories about why it happened:
Huh? That makes zero sense, but exactly the kind of idiocy we now expect out of election Twitter. And you can bet both pro-Buttigieg people and anti-Buttigieg people will complain about this forever and ever…