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Polling Errors and Warning Signs
This chapter discusses the patterns of polling errors in the 2020 US elections, highlighting how Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton in the same places where polls overestimated her support in 2016. It emphasizes the issue of survey error in the industrial Midwest, using Wisconsin as an example, and mentions the lack of significant methodological changes in most pollsters since the 2020 polling misses.