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Some midterm polls were on-target – but finding which pollsters and poll aggregators to believe can be challenging

  • Written by W. Joseph Campbell, Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
imageA prominent GOP poll said Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire would lose her re-election bid to a Republican. Hassan won by 9 percentage points.AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Pollsters indulged in breezy self-congratulation in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections. Pre-election polls, they declared, did well overall in signaling...

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