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DarreToBe t1_j50ufwe wrote

I wonder how much of this you could attribute to herding in daily approval rating polls that are released by polling organizations. I know it's something 538 and other polling aggregators and observers have been talking about on an ongoing basis, so there's probably no full answer, but I am more curious if it is more "real" to have more variability day to day.

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infegy OP t1_j50vtxn wrote

Yeah, that was a tricky bit. 538 often has longer type polls (e.g. this poll is valid from 10/1- through 10/5). To handle those, I just took the beginning of the date range.

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