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Pollsters repeatedly miss election outcomes by fighting the last war

Opinion writer traces a long record of polling failures, from the 1936 Literary Digest miss to recent primary errors, and argues that human modeling choices, not technology, drive most errors.

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Opinion writer traces a long record of polling failures, from the 1936 Literary Digest miss to recent primary errors, and argues that human modeling choices, not technology, drive most errors.