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Do the problems with election polls doom issue polling too?

Do the problems with election polls doom issue polling too?

Reanalyses of 2020 polling data suggest that surveys about political attitudes are probably more accurate than pre-election polls

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Dec 04, 2020
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Robert Shapiro, a Columbia University professor and scholar of public opinion (among other things), wrote a piece for the Monkey Cage political science blog at the Washington Post yesterday that says:

In 2020, polls appear to have overconfidently predicted that Joe Biden would handily defeat incumbent President Trump.

While researchers are sorting out the…

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