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DemocratSinceBirth

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Sat Oct 27, 2012, 10:05 AM Oct 2012

How Did The Polls Do In 2010?

WASHINGTON -- How did the polls do this year? And who was the most accurate pollster? While crowning a polling "winner" can be a dubious proposition on the day after the election, some immediate lessons are apparent: On average, the final statewide pre-election polls once again provided a largely unbiased measurement of the outcomes of most races, Congressional District polling had a slight Democratic skew, national polls that sampled both landline and cell phones measured national Congressional vote preference more accurately than those that sampled only landline phones and the venerable Gallup Poll took one on the chin.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/how-did-the-polls-do_n_778216.html
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