That suggests that, overall, the 2016 national pre-election polls were generally accurate and unbiased. That year’s state-level polls similarly underestimated Republican support, but here too ...

The latest news about the 2020 election, including updates on the candidates, the polls and the major issues.

As Election Day draws closer, Americans are being inundated with polls about the state of the presidential race. And, understandably, many are wondering whether polls can be trusted after Donald Trump ...

Republican Loretta Oakes watches returns at an election-night party in Las Vegas on Nov 3, 2020. It’s been shown that Trump supporters are less likely to give their opinions to pollsters. AP ...

Public opinion polls in the 2020 presidential election suffered from errors of “unusual magnitude,” the highest in 40 years for surveys estimating the national popular vote and in at least 20 ...

A voter walks to a booth to fill out their ballot at Public School 160 on Nov. 3, 2020, in Brooklyn, N.Y. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Trump support underestimated. In 2020, election polls ...

Biden, of course, did go on to win the election, but by a smaller popular vote margin (4.5 points) and an exceedingly narrow one in the Electoral College, where a total of about 43,000 votes ...

National polls conducted in the final two weeks of the election were off by an average of 4.5 percentage points, overstating the margin between Trump and now-President Biden (in Biden’s favor ...

But the election was much closer than polls suggested in several battleground states (e.g., Wisconsin) and more decisive for Trump elsewhere (e.g., Ohio). Democrats also were disappointed at failing ...

The 2020 presidential election polls were far from perfect. They had President-elect Joe Biden winning the election, which is worth something. Yet, nationally and in every single one of the 18 ...

Pre-election polls, it appeared, had been misleading once again. Leading Republicans — including Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader — have backed President Trump’s refusal to concede .

Presidential election polls for 2020 are rolling in, and we’re collecting them all in one place for you! You can check out the latest on our polls page, which w… ...