A preliminary assessment of polling ahead of the 2020 presidential election by the top public opinion research trade group found that surveys of the race between President Biden and former President Trump were the most inaccurate in four decades.
Members of the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s task force on the 2020 election revealed their initial findings on Wednesday at the trade group’s annual conference, The Wall Street Journal reported. They said that polls of the race overestimated Biden’s national support by nearly 4 percentage points in the two-week period leading up to the election.
The last time polling so drastically overstated a candidate’s support was in 1980 when surveys overestimated support for former President Carter by about 6 percentage points.
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