Election polls in 2020 produced 'error of unusual magnitude,' expert panel finds, without pinpointing cause
- Written by W. Joseph Campbell, Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
A voter exits a polling location on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas. Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesMore than eight months after the acute polling embarrassment in the 2020 U.S. elections – that produced the sharpest discrepancy between the polls and popular vote outcome since 1980 – survey experts examining what went...