@sgf So here we have some stats and modeling knowledge intersecting with a domain where the public perception was "we had these polls and then we had these pundits" and the discussion was all around individual polls.
So it isn't bad that he entered into this area, but his models weren't being evaluated correctly and in many ways he promoted evaluating them incorrectly.
He talked about all of the Factors™ that went into it, but it was never clear how many of those factors were needed.