Election Polls Wrong Again

It took 6 months for the american association for public opinion research to release their findings about polling errors after the 2016 election.

Election polls wrong again. Polls held just before election day. For a second time state polls have misjudged trump s strong voter base in states that have been traditionally blue for several. Opinion why the polls were wrong and will never be right again a widely predicted blue wave has not eventuated for joe biden.

The real reason pollsters yet again misread the american electorate. This is a failure of mainstream opinion polling. Why did the us election pollsters get it wrong again.

A conclusive examination of why the polls were so wrong on trump again is likely to take some time. Why election polls were so wrong again in 2020. Americans found that out on election night in 2016 when polls predicting victories for hillary clinton in the key swing states of michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin all turned out to be wrong.

Filed under 2020 presidential election polls. After the searing experience of 2016 so many of us secretly rejoiced at polls that on average showed joe biden 8 5 ahead a bigger margin than any since bill clinton s in 1996. Whatever the final outcome the polls got it wrong.

When i say polls here i m not talking about the actual process of voting in an election i am referring to very expensive surveys that ask about a thousand us adults who they will. But it became clear the polls were wide of the mark when mr trump won the most prized battleground of florida the largest of the swing.