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Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images Panic struck the electorally over-informed on Saturday night when the Des Moines Register announced that it was cancelling its Selzer poll of Iowa caucusgoers, after Pete Buttigieg’s campaign raised concerns over the survey’s methodology.
The poll is conducted by telephone from a call center, where operators read from a prepared script of candidates’ names to determine who a voter plans to support. One operator had apparently enlarged the font size on their computer screen, perhaps cutting off Mr. Buttigieg’s name from the list of options, according to two people familiar with the incident who did not have permission to speak about it publicly.After every phone call, the list of candidates’ names is randomly reordered, so Mr.
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