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Re:Electoral College Decision Tree by newacct583 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:22AM (#24883827)
Uh... polls reliably predicted Trump's win in the primaries long before anyone in the pundit class believed it. For months and months it was explained away as simple name recognition. But he was ahead the whole time.

Honestly, you're misremembering this. Polls were not wrong in 2016 like you think they were. Just browse through the article history at 538, they really are the best source for this stuff.

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Re:Electoral College Decision Tree by lern_too_spel on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:30PM (#24891127)
> Just browse through the article history at 538

I did. They say the polls were wrong. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-...

You yourself said the polls were wrong because they didn't weight for education. Now you say they weren't. Are you walking back your original statement? That statement is what this whole discussion is about.

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