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Why Polls Alone Aren’t Good Predictors for the Midterms

August 31, 2018 · 1:25 pm ET · Leave a Comment

The following post for members is by G. Elliot Morris of The Crosstab.

Polling is hard. Who do you ask? How do you ask them? What do you ask them? Etc. For a few years the survey research industry has also been tasked with answering one big question: should we ask people to take our surveys online?

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