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You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully

  • Written by Josh Pasek, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
A Michigan township collects votes in 2016.Barbara Kalbfleisch/shutterstock

On the morning of Nov. 8, 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary Clinton would be elected the nation’s first female president.

Their confidence was driven, in no small part, by a pervasive message that Clinton was ahead in the polls and forecasts...

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