Never Forget How Wrong the Polls Were
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Never Forget How Wrong the Polls Were

They will try very hard to make you forget. Don’t let them.

Spencer Klavan

No matter what happens, the polls were wrong. Catastrophically, irrevocably, irredeemably wrong. They’ll try to make us forget that. We absolutely cannot let them.

Going into the election last week, NBC News/Wall Street Journal gave Biden a 10-point lead—no matter what the final tally, there is no way this won’t turn out to have been wildly off. Likewise in the now-upended House of Representatives. The New York Times/Siena overestimated Biden’s support in Florida by 6 points, in North Carolina by 4 points, in Michigan by about 6 points, in Wisconsin by about 10 points, in Iowa by more than 10 points, and in Ohio by more than 9 points.

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