{"id":248,"date":"2024-11-11T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/everyone-is-talking-about-what-went-wrong-in-the-election-it-wasnt-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:30:17","slug":"everyone-is-talking-about-what-went-wrong-in-the-election-it-wasnt-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/everyone-is-talking-about-what-went-wrong-in-the-election-it-wasnt-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is talking about what went wrong in the election. It wasn’t the polls."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Election Night<\/a>, I was nervous. I\u2019m a pollster and a former political data journalist<\/a>. I knew that if the polls whiffed again \u2014 like they did in 2020 \u2014 Americans would write off polling as irreparably broken.<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s enough data to reach a verdict \u2014 and, despite what you may have been hearing<\/a>, the polls did well. No, the data wasn\u2019t perfect, and the industry still faces long-term challenges. But we\u2019ve proven that we can get close to the mark \u2014 which is the best we can reasonably expect from polling.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve proven that we can get close to the mark \u2014 which is the best we can reasonably expect from polling.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to take my word for it. Let\u2019s compare the average of pre-election polls \u2014 computed by FiveThirtyEight<\/a> and RealClearPolitics<\/a> \u2014 to the latest results in swing states where NBC News has projected a winner.<\/p>\n