Will election polls be more accurate now that Trump out of office?

A popular theory is that partisan non-response is going to disappear since Trump is not on the ballot. This misses the point.

Five of the biggest Democratic-aligned polling firms released a light autopsy of their 2020 pre-election polls yesterday. The firms — ALG Research, Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group, GBAO Strategies, Global Strategy Group, and Normington Petts — pooled their resources to investigate why their predictions of a Biden landslide were wrong. “Every one of us th…