Voters who decided to back a presidential candidate at the last minute and an unprecedented, pandemic-induced surge of mail-in and absentee ballots across the country confounded pollsters trying to measure public opinion in the days leading up to November’s elections.
But as the slow vote tallies continue to amass, while pollsters acknowledge that their industry has progress to make in accurately gauging the mood of the electorate, most reject the early narrative that the polls — commissioned by the media, by Democratic groups and by Republican groups — were wrong. CONTINUED
Reid Wilson, The Hill