When It Makes Sense to Question Polls

I wrote an article this week headlined “Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats.” Reaction was fierce.

A number of readers compared the article’s argument to the “unskewed” polls phenomenon before the 2012 presidential election, when many commentators argued, mainly based on their instinct about the likely composition of the electorate, that the polls were missing Republican-leaning voters.

Other than the observation that the polls might be off, the similarities end there. CONT.

Nate Cohn, New York Times

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