Politico Agrees That Polls Are Underestimating Trump Just Like In 2016

You get elected by winning the nation as a whole? Not in our system. It’s in the states, stupid.

“. . . [M]ost pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage. That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states,” the outlet reported. “And those issues haven’t been fixed.”

Courtney Kennedy, director of research at the Pew Research Center, told Politico that concerns from 2016 are still valid.

Remember how flabbergasted the network and the two cable outlets were on election night? Well . . .

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