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General News 10/11/2016 at 5:19 AM EDT H4'ed 10/11/16

Is the Era of Polling Over?

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Time and time again, pollsters are getting it wrong.

The downturn in the accuracy of polling seems to have picked up steam in 2012, after major pollsters Rasmussen (which is right-leaning) and Gallup (which is not) showed that Republican challenger Mitt Romney would best incumbent President Barack Obama.

Obviously, Romney did not win, and Gallup ended up holding a news conference about the errors in its polling and correcting its methodology.

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