The Problems Plaguing Election Polls by SciFri published on 2016-02-05T22:04:58Z Senator Ted Cruz beat out Donald Trump by four percentage points of the vote in the 2016 Iowa Republican caucuses. Before the results came in, nearly 50 percent of the polls surveyed by fivethirtyeight.com predicted Trump as the winner. Why were the polls so far off? Political scientist Cliff Zukin says there is over-reliance on the “horse racing” of polls. He takes us through the challenges of accurate election polling. Genre Science
