Are polls misleading Americans?
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Are polls misleading Americans?

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 202631 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

In several primary elections so far, polling has been wrong. So much so that a candidate in the Wisconsin Democratic primary dropped out because another candidate so high in the polls. The only problem - the ‘clear winner’ lost. Whether polls mislead American voters has been an active question since 2016, when predictions were that Donald Trump would lose the presidential race. But as voters look toward the midterms, we ask when they do and don’t help. Does the media oversell them? And do they play too big of a role in shaping political narratives? J...

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I'm a fan of the United States, but I'm a fan of the United States. I'm a fan of the United States, but I'm a fan of the United States. I'm a fan of the United States. and what polls might be telling us about the chances for Democrats to rest back control of Congress.

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Yeah, everyone is trying to read the tea leaves by looking at these polls. And if you look at them right now, they indicate that Democrats are leading in a lot of these races, that they have a good chance to win back the House of Representatives, maybe even an outside chance to take the Senate back as well. But we have to keep in mind that polling is not an exact science, and they give us a snapshot, an

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