Reply #31: hmmm okay I'll double look at whether they are exit or pre-polling [View All]

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“Everybody has bad polls from time to time,” said pollster Scott Rasmussen. “But, I can’t remember a time when the entire polling industry got one thing so wrong across the board.”

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Absent one major exception, though, the pre-primary polls out of New Hampshire were right on target. On the Republican side, pollsters had the race pegged just right with Sen. John McCain holding a four point lead on average before the primary – he bested Romney by six points.


Polls on the Democratic side also had the support of former Sen. John Edwards measured right. In pre-primary polls, his support hovered between 17 and 20 percent – he finished with 17 percent of the vote last night.


And In Iowa, polls before the caucus that showed Clinton dipping to third place and Obama in the lead also proved accurate.