Academic and nonpartisan pollsters surveying voters ahead of key election contests this year are trying new technology and massaging their existing methodology in hopes of correcting the errors that led them to underestimate Donald Trump’s level of support in the 2020 election.
But those pollsters on the front lines today are contending with some of the most difficult-to-survey contests in recent memory, from a California recall with dozens of candidates on the ballot to a mayoral election in Buffalo where the incumbent is running as a write-in candidate. CONTINUED
Reid Wilson, The Hill
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