Why Did the Polls Get So Much Wrong Again in 2020 US Election?

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 11:52 p.m.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 158, in which I discuss why the polls got so much wrong, again, in the 2020 US Presidential election.\xa0 They did predict that Biden would win, which he did, but by smaller margins in several states than projected in the polls.\xa0 And he lost Florida and Ohio, which the polls said he would win.\xa0 Why did this happen, again (it happened in 2016), what can be done about it, and what are the implications of this failure in polling for the future?

Further reading:\xa0 "A Black Eye: Why Political Polling Missed the Mark. Again."\xa0 The New York Times

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