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That's not true, there have been countless articles about why polling went wrong last time. Also, polling wasn't that wrong. Due to sampling bias, several swin
by jjeaff 6y ago
That's not true, there have been countless articles about why polling went wrong last time.
Also, polling wasn't that wrong. Due to sampling bias, several swing states were off by as much as 5-6 percentage points. But national polling bad Hillary winning by something like 4% in the popular vote.
Instead, she won the popular vote by 3%.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> several swing states were off by as much as 5-6 percentage points Most state polls have margins of error ranging from 3 to 6 points. A 3-point MoE state poll is a really expensive poll.
- timmytokyo 6y agoA properly conducted poll with 1000 respondents has a margin of error of 3.2%. There have been quite a few of these in battleground states this cycle.