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The Limits of Political Polls
The political story of the week is the stunning defeat of House majority leader Eric Cantor in Virginia’s seventh district. Nobody predicted that Cantor would lose to a no-name, Tea Party-backed economics professor -- least of all, Cantor’s pollster, John McLaughlin.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readThe political story of the week is the stunning defeat of House majority leader Eric Cantor in Virginia’s seventh district. Nobody predicted that Cantor would lose to a no-name, Tea Party-backed economics professor -- least of all, Cantor’s pollster, John McLaughlin. Less than a week before the election, McLaughlin forecasted that Cantor would win by 34 percentage points. Instead, he lost by ten. How did the pollster get it so wrong?
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The full episode
3 of 5World Cup Protests, Four Decades of Film and Scary Food News- 0:00ISIS Explained
- 9:56Protests Cast Shadow on the World Cup
- 19:28The Limits of Political PollsYou’re reading this
- 28:19Four Decades of Film
- 43:07A Superbug in the Food Supply?