David Shor was born on 1991 and is an American data scientist and political consultant known for analyzing political polls.
10 Facts About David Shor
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David Shor serves as head of data science with Blue Rose Research in New York City, and is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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David Shor grew up in Miami, Florida, in a Sephardic Jewish family of Moroccan origins.
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David Shor holds a mathematics degree from Florida International University.
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David Shor was a precocious child and gifted in mathematics, starting his undergraduate degree at the age of 13 and finishing at the age of 17.
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David Shor was awarded the Math in Moscow scholarship in fall 2009.
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David Shor joined the Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign at the age of 20, working on the Chicago-based team that tracked internal and external polls and developed forecasts.
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David Shor then worked as a senior data scientist with Civis Analytics in Chicago for seven years, where he operated the company's web-based survey.
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On May 28,2020, David Shor tweeted a summary of an academic study by Omar Wasow, a black political scientist at Princeton University, that argued riots following Martin Luther King Jr.
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David Shor is an advocate for what he terms "popularism", the idea that Democrats should campaign on a strategy of focusing on issues that enjoy electoral popularity, such as focusing on economic issues over polarizing social and cultural issues.