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
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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