Fact Check Team: Are Political Polls Still Reliable? Primary Misses Spark Discussion
Unexpected primary results in both states exposed turnout and nonresponse problems, even as recent polling has remained relatively accurate in national elections.
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Shoddy Polling in Battleground States Could Fuel Outsider 2028 Candidates
Public polls in Wisconsin exaggerated Francesca Hong’s chances of beating David Crowley, the moderate candidate backed by the state’s governor, last week. (Kayla Wolf/AP)As the Democratic Party prepares for its 2028 presidential primary, recent polling errors in marquee midterm primary races have left Democrats wondering anew how polls will influence the field’s momentum.The results in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial and Michigan’s Senate primaries we…
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Fact Check Team: Are political polls still reliable? Primary misses spark discussion
Recent polling misses in Wisconsin and Michigan are renewing a familiar question heading into the 2026 midterms: How much confidence should voters put in polls?
Pollsters off in hot primary
Emerson College released a poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Michigan about a week before the vote. It had progressive firebrand Abdul El-Sayed leading U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens by 15 percentage points in the race for U.S. Senate.
Why Did Pollsters Get Michigan And Wisconsin Primaries So Wrong?
Polling for races in Michigan and Wisconsin did not accurately reflect the actual election results due to open primaries and the willingness from the further-left candidates’ bases to be surveyed, […] The post Why Did Pollsters Get Michigan And Wisconsin Primaries So Wrong? appeared first on The Western Journal.
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