For the past several election cycles, the American public has been fed a steady stream of polls, conducted with outdated methodology, to give us a definitive view of who is winning. They were wrong in 2016, they were wrong again in 2018 and they are wrong again in 2020…
2020 Polling: A Trip Down Short-Term Memory Lane…
As the presidential battle among Democrats heats up, there are new polls and predictions every day as to how it will turn out. A recent Marquette University Law poll finds both former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would beat President Trump in Wisconsin. Some news reporters and pundits seem to use […]
Listen Up! The Media Didn’t Get the Polling Wrong…They Lied…
Election Polling in Disarray with Wild Disparities Among Top Firms…
Four respected firms — Gravis Marketing, Rasmussen, USC Dornsife/LA Times and IBD/TIPP — for weeks have put the contest either at a statistical dead heat or up or down a point or two. Then The Associated Press came out with a wow poll Thursday showing Mrs. Clinton up by a whopping 14 points…