In Iowa, Ann Celser is known for her political polls.

Polls that surprise people.

I've heard all of these nicknames for you.

Like, my favorite is the Cassandra of Des Moines.

But do you have a favorite?

Well, I recently sort of resurrected the title of Outlier Queen.

That is, I've had any number of polls that looked like an outlier

and then turned out to be pretty, pretty close.

So Queen, I have a little Tierra collection.

So, you know, that fits me just fine.

Do you literally have a Tierra collection?

I literally have a Tierra collection.

Ann's polls don't just catch people by surprise.

They're also surprisingly accurate.

She started getting attention back in 2008.

That's when she was one of the only people to predict Barack Obama

would dominate the Iowa caucuses.

Since election results began coming in last week,

there's bitmiss debate about the polls.

How good they are, whether we should pay attention to them anymore.

So many of them simply got this election wrong.

Predicted Joe Biden would run up big margins

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