Those who walk the deep weeds of politics immediately recognized that Ann Selzer had cashed-out and was going to retire after she transmitted the ridiculous polling that showed Kamala Harris was going to win Iowa by +3 points. The prediction was laughable, and the result showcased just how silly it was, Trump +13.
The reality was that Selzer, and the ideologues around her, posted the bogus weekend election poll in order to fuel an attempted “pro-abortion” narrative and boost female turnout in the November 5th election. The Sunday talks and corporate media ran with the narrative from the baseline of Selzer’s fraud.
Today Ann Selzer announces her retirement, “in order to pursue other ventures and opportunities.”
IOWA – Public opinion polling has been my life’s work. I collected my first research data as a freshman in college, if you don’t count a neighborhood poll I did at age 5. I’ve always been fascinated with what a person could learn from a scientific sample of a meaningful universe.
Beyond election polls, my favorite projects were helping clients learn something they did not know to help them evaluate options for their companies, institutions or causes. That work may well continue, but I knew a few years ago that the election polling part of my career was headed to a close.
[…] My integrity means a lot to me. To those who have questioned it, there are likely no words to dissuade. For those who know me best, I appreciate the supportive notes and calls reminding me that what drew me to them as friends, colleagues and clients was commitment to truth and accuracy — both in my professional and my personal relationships. (read more)
BYE!
“…was commitment to truth and accuracy…”
The world can do without your brand of “truth and accuracy”
Well, she’s right about one thing: “There are . . . no words to dissuade” us from questioning her integrity!
Bad assumption. We’re to somehow believe she had any integrity
My boss at work was telling me about corruption in his past corporate life.
He said to me, “Dan. Everything is a fraud!”
It amazes me that there are just so many people who are non-pretending.
DD
We are living the “MATRIX”!
It has become difficult to determine what is real and what is fiction.
You’ve just pointed out why I am eager to consult The Last Refuge each day.
👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Seth Keshel called it
did she get paid to blow up her reputation like so many others?
paid media vs earned media
Astroturf; crisis actors, celebrities, AI, paid boosted posts, bot armies, influencer cartels, physops, blackmail, push polls, fake polls, gotv, ballot harvesting etc.
It adds up
https://skeshel.substack.com/archive?sort=new
What a relief it is to see Selzer gone…
Plop..Plop
Fizz..Fizz 🙂
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
(“I can’t believe I destroyed my career over the – you know – the thing, the whole thing”_
It’s not “did she get paid” it’s “How Much did she get paid” for selling her integrity?
I doubt she had any integrity to sell!
One wonders how much she earned working for a newspaper all those years. Maybe she got old and was willing to take a nice retirement check to cook the numbers.
She didn’t need to get paid.
As a committed ideologue, she did it enthusiastically!
Hmmm, I am retiring could be interpreted as they paid me enough to live comfortably for a long time.
Or she is a true believer.
Either way, I’m glad she’s gone.
“My integrity means a lot to me. To those who have questioned it, there are likely no words to dissuade. For those who know me best, I appreciate the supportive notes and calls reminding me that what drew me to them…”
COMRADEry.
She is just one more piece of the election rigging machine.
Karma shall return the favor one day.
Scamistician.
Oh! At first I thought you wrote “Scamistan” – as, that is from whence she came and that is where she is going.
Noyce wordage!
Cough, cough, bullsh**
You sacrificed whatever credibility you had, Ms. Selzer, on the Kamala Altar.
And she left a gigantic lingering stain on the Des Moines Register’s reputation.
And the Register must continue to publish in the years ahead … to an Iowa that now looks at them very differently.
Was it really worth it, DMR ?
One less a..hole!
In this world, you can be one of two things. Either the cure or the disease! She is the disease!
“My integrity means a lot to me.”
Being an MSNBC panelist doesn’t seem like a lot to me.
GO ALREADY.
I’m sure Ann was paid enough by Kamala for the phony poll to afford her retirement…
Hope she has already collected. Apparently some will not be so fortunate…
She would have done it for free 😎
And maybe she did 😂
Bought her off with one last fling.
We have a product in Britain called Alka Seltzer. You take a big gulp of it to try and relive wind and a bad
stomach after a heavy night drinking (I’m told)
Any relation?
Any junior student of statistics and its offshoot, polling, knows, an honest sample is the foundation.
Selzer is dishonest, likely criminal, since the clear intent was to deceive. This was no accident.
But most criminals, of necessity, refuse responsibility for their actions and for their intended victims.
May the Universe find a method of recompense.
Despite all the hysteria ginned up over the topic of abortion, it really was all a pretense. No matter which candidate won the presidency Roe v. Wade was not suddenly going to exist as a SC case, or the decision reversed.
President Trump already said he would not sign a total abortion ban, and there is nothing The Cackler could have done to institute it. Anywhere.
It’s to each of the States now; neither Trump nor Harris was seeking a state office.
This issue, in reality, was a complete wash. So many rallies, all over … nothing.
Give them a “C” for consistency.
EVERYTHING, from the Candidate to the issues to the positions she took, to the rallys (lol) to the celebrity endorsements to yes, of coarse the polls, was FAKE.
The idea that this army of spoiled brat girls, fanatical about their right to abortion (despite the fact nobody would have any desire to impregnate them in the first place!) was a chimera which they hoped might make it seem plausible that America would vote for the Cackler.
Didn’t work.
PDJT made abortion a non-issue. Team Kamala did not get the memo. Like the GOP running on the success of the Iraq war with John McCain in 2008.
She should be shunned, even in her next venture. Just proves anyone with a computer, know a few people in politics and an axe to grind can make it in this country. It’s sad that this shows her pathetic upbringing. Lack of character and moral standards. Hard to imagine that anyone could fall for her drivel. I think that she wanted to be noticed for her off the road thinking (and she got it).
She need to take an alka setlzer and admit her polling proved she is a gold star fraud who like some other polsters try to manipulate the vote.
Just another rat jumping off the sinking ship of polling.
🦨
And let the door hit you on your way out.
“My integrity means a lot to me.” Yeah sure!
It (her integrity) had a price…
There is a positively hilarious editorial from the red-faced Des Moines Register, scrambling to explain away and distance itself from this lingering propaganda stunt masquerading as a ‘poll’.
This far-left activist turned them into another 1980 Gallup laughingstock on the way out the door. A SIXTEEN point sham!
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/from-the-editor/2024/11/17/editors-update-what-a-review-of-the-pre-election-iowa-poll-has-found/76300644007/
“..truth and accuracy — both in my professional and my personal relationships.”
Her personal relationships are equally reliable?
I can picture her Significant Other, if she has one, reading that and going 😳😳😳
Her “integrity” is subject to opinion polls and what manipulative angle is given focus for the short term.
Buttafuoco!
“in order to pursue other ventures and opportunities.”
I see a book deal in the works.
“The Art of Dark Money Deals and Polling”
– A journey through the PR and Ad industry and how to profit off directing discretionary budgets through lies, blackmail and shake downs of Corporate America.
She spiked a 2020 caucus poll because it showed Biden running in fourth place. Anyone detecting a pattern yet?
another worthless hack.
She sold out her integrity and everyone knows it.
No one believes her now.
Barf. 🙏✝️🙏
Regardless of what Selzer may have accomplished during her career she went out as a liar & a fraud.
As will many more after her.
”my integrity means a lot to me”….its just the cash meant more…
I hear there’s a job open at McDonalds. 😀
Lol, the balz on some of these cretins.. Anyway, Bye Girl! 👋
“My integrity means a lot to me. To those who have questioned it, there are likely no words to dissuade.”
I’m sure a nice payout did wonders for her “integrity”.
She, selzer was, IMHO, paid a large amount of money by the harris campaign. What, they went through a $billion+. I don’t know what selzer’s fee is for a poll, but I bet the harris campaign paid double, triple or even more than whatever her normal polling charge was to come up with this garbage. With all that cash, she can now retire and “pursue” other “ventures and opportunities”.
This woman was just told to put her name on the poll and publish it. She got her bag and she is gone!
She has been irrevocably exposed as a DNC propagandist.
Ann who?
allan lichtman needs to join her and take his “keys” to the white house with him.
Maybe she could start a cooking show? “Preheat the oven to 6,000 degrees…”
Integrity my left foot for anyone on the LEFT! They don’t care, practice or care about integrity. All they want is “Stalin-Like Power!
No thanks!
I will take American Freedom and Truth every time! God Bless America and God Bless President Donald Trump! MAGA!
She’s married to Al K. Selzer
At least she quit, how many other bad actors have done that. Or been fired.
Seltzer was putting her finger on scale! Something Leftists do all the time except she put herself in a box canyon and got caught. The smart one don’t make that mistake!
She’s not sad or embarrassed or ashamed.
She did her job.
She got paid.
She will be richly rewarded with future employment.
And that’s all she wrote.
I saw her in some video on social media, maybe X/Twitter where she was looking at a chart and she didn’t know what “D” or “R” stood for. (D=Dem. R=Repub) WTF?
I will NEVER forget when Never Trumper Eeyore Erick Erickson claimed after the Iowa poll was released, in effect, “we may now be seeing the damage from the Puerto Rican joke at MSG, and Donald Trump’s bro centered campaign.”
Often I wanted to call in and ask “man, can’t you ever be positive about Donald Trump? You deek?” 🤣
I’ve often felt the same about Eeyores here. ☺️
Not many since the election, though, except for on the thread about the Forever Surveillance.
I look at a problem like that – sundance is 100% correct it’s a dreadful one – and just think – one thing at a time. Stop the house from burning down before you try to remove the relentless mold in the walls…
In the meantime I am a happy warrior and intend to remain so! Especially when we have Selzer types to laugh at…
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Golden parachute?