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The Trouble With Political Polls

July 16, 2015

In a recent article published in The New York Times, Cliff Zukin, professor of political science at Rutgers University and past president of the American Association for Public Policy Opinion Research, explained that political polling is in crisis as statisticians scramble to reconcile the results of recent elections with their polling data and mathematical models.

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