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The Presidential Polls Weren’t That Far Off

By John McCormack
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The Presidential Polls Weren’t That Far Off

Donald Trump has shocked the world and won the presidential election. But you shouldn’t blame most of the polls for your surprise. Polling errors of about three percentage points are fairly common, as we’ve pointed out at THE WEEKLY STANDARD and as Nate Silver has explained at FiveThirtyEight.com.

And most of the polling errors in the 2016 presidential election were within three percentage points.

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