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Election Wire: Battleground Senate

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Why Should Americans Trust or Not Trust Polls?

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Many Americans rightfully so are highly skeptical of polls in general, particularly after the last three elections. We saw many pollsters get results dramatically wrong and almost all of those miscalculations favored Democrats. Polls have two purposes: They either to reflect the electorate or they're to affect the electorate. And too many of these media and university-based polls are designed to affecting the electorate quite often when there's not one.

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