… This year, the polls did very well. By some measures, in fact, the Senate polls tied their best performance on record — the last great performance being in 2006. This was, of course, predictable; I wrote a whole book about why people who said the polls were broken were wrong. But how is it that they did so well? And have pollsters fixed the problems that threw off their estimates in 2020 and 2016?
It will take months for pollsters to conduct their official post-mortems, but here are some things we know right now. CONTINUED
G. Elliott Morris, Politics by the Numbers
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