Traditional political polling in America has been living on borrowed time, and the divergence of the actual votes in Tuesday’s election from what was expected in the polls may signal that its time is up. The fact that the polls apparently missed the preferences of a large portion of the American electorate indicates a larger, more systematic issue, one that’s unlikely to be fixed anytime soon.
Why Pollsters Were Completely and Utterly Wrong
They had the wrong data.
November 09, 2016
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