Attacking the credibility of polls (and pollsters) has become a kind of bank shot for those aiming to destroy the credibility of the institution that polls simulate: elections.
Among MAGA adherents, if the polls are off, it¡¯s not because polling has become more difficult. It¡¯s because everything is corrupt and nothing is true.
The political science department of Vanderbilt University has said that pre-election polls in 2020 exhibited the ¡°largest errors in 40 years.¡± That mistake hovers over the 2022 election and influences the work, and reputations, of the partisans and pollsters (and partisan pollsters) who are trying to gauge the trajectory of a large, diverse and unruly electorate.
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