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How not to “unskew” the polls

Corrections to inflexible partisan benchmarks usually fail

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G. Elliott Morris
Jul 12, 2020
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I wrote a couple a months ago about why I think the theoretical motivation behind “unskewing” the polls is completely fine, despite what you may hear from other analysts. People that attempt to de-bias the polls are simply asserting that most have too many Democrats or Republicans in them, pushing the industry to overestimate support for one candidate. …

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