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-Land of the Free
Inside Look at Polling Methods and Their Failure Points
2020-11-03
[MediumCom Via CFP] Wick is not a partisan polling company. We exist to create technology and thought leadership that accelerates the market research industry’s journey to more speed, affordability, and accuracy. We withheld this article until the day before the election to limit the politicization of its data and insights for the media interests of either party.

From the author:

We are predicting that Donald Trump is going to win re-election. In our most recent battleground polls in the 6 states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio he is up by over 2% in all but Michigan (for those results scroll to the end of this article).

But what’s more interesting than our prediction that he will win, and why we are writing this article, is that all of our polls until last week had Trump losing by similar margins to what you have probably seen in the news.

What caused this change?
Posted by:Mercutio

#3  #2 Polls released to the public show what the people who paid for the polling want the public to see.

And should be treated like the political that it is. advertising.
Posted by: charger   2020-11-03 14:03  

#2  Polls released to the public show what the people who paid for the polling want the public to see.
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-11-03 13:03  

#1  Did they ask people who they voted for last election?

If they get a different RESULT from the previous election then they can at least gauge error bars this time.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-11-03 10:16  

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