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Polls Haven't Been This Accurate Since At Least 1998

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Are Your Concerns About Polling Nullified?

In the long run, response rates are down in the industry. The classic way of just surveying lots of people by random digit dial or voter lists is not as flip-or-vis at once was. But empirically, there isn't much of a pattern. And my kind of story is like, I think this is the year that pollsters realize they have to put some secret sauce into things,.

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