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drumdance on Nov 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread...

The polls were not that far off. If 1 in 100 Trump voters had gone for Clinton instead she would have won.

I think polling is pretty broken though. A lot has changed from 20 years ago when everyone had a landline phone.

Sacho on Nov 11, 2016 [–]

The polls were off by the same percentage amount that would have allowed Romney to win the popular vote over Obama.

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