He found that if he took the poll's data and weighted it differently, what had been a tie between Trump and Clinton suddenly became a Clinton lead. Indeed, his version has the poll showing her in the lead almost the entire summer and fall. Ernie Tedeschi, an economist and former Treasury Department official who is adept at data analysis, looked at the issue differently. Times "Daybreak" poll of the election — and the gap between the poll and all other major surveys — has drawn a lot of attention. What Tedeschi did demonstrates how much difference the fairly technical topic of weighting a poll can make.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 19, 2016 21:51 UTC