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Embiggening Embarrasses: "Font Fiasco Tanks Climactic Iowa Poll"
Or should I say, "uncromulent embiggening"?
From Axios (Rebecca Falconer & Mike Allen):
In a Saturday night stunner, the Des Moines Register and CNN scrapped the final Iowa Poll before Monday's caucuses because of fears it was tainted….
"It appears a candidate's name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate" [wrote the Register]….
A CNN source told Axios the amazing backstory: An interviewer at the poll's call center increased the font size of the questionnaire on their screen so much that the bottom choice (which rotated between calls) wasn't visible.
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