β€œThe website FiveThirtyEight has for years done an exceptional job of presenting data in an accessible way and, more importantly, championing it,” @pbump writes. And he uses his newsletter to celebrate three staffers β€” Alex Newman, Elana Mejia and Paroma Soni β€” who are losing their jobs as FiveThirtyEight is being gutted.

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Poll promoting journalism is one of the things that has helped put our democracy in danger. The only polls that really tell us what Americans are thinking is at the ballot boxes.