2020 countdown: Trusting the polls

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Perception doesn’t always equal reality. Pollsters who worked through the 2016 presidential election are quick to point that out.

The integrity of political polling was called into question after the 2016 election due to the shocking upset of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump. Given the fact that the dominant narrative was that Clinton was going to beat Trump, political observers have been skeptical of political polling data ever since.

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