In short, presidential race poll results tend to get big headlines from media types ready to make a dollar from over-simplified, quick to present numerical findings. Two Sunday morning network TV news programs seem to love poll results as a jazzy way to regularly and quickly talk about lots of issues. Republican candidate Chris Christie actually complained about the way the polls results were presented on CBS as well as the sample size. Media coverage of these poll results had a huge content gap, favoring focus on the horse-race aspect. Last words​I asked a person with a statistics minor in college and experience analyzing statistics in professional situations to analyze the Times/Siena poll results.

Source: New York Times December 22, 2023 14:56 UTC