Political Polling Question (not political)

ucbalumnus
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:09:28 +0000

emilybee:

The polls in the last presidential election were also accurate. People got confused because certain people were saying the polls were “skewed” but in fact they weren’t. The Romney camp believed they were skewed too. Oops.

In 2012, there were at least three sites that aggregated state polls (the ones that matter for determining who gets electoral college votes). All of them correctly predicted the election result and at least 47 or 48 states. Editorial commentary on those sites indicated that two were D-leaning and one was R-leaning.