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Why election pollsters keep repeating old mistakes

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 30 October 2026, 15:34 UTC ·11 sec listen

Polling failures have a long history, from Literary Digest’s famously wrong 1936 forecast to modern partisan surveys that distort primaries. Tevi Troy argues pollsters repeatedly adapt to yesterday’s mistakes, leaving them vulnerable to new errors.

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