Pollsters Lost Big in Virginia and New Jersey
6 min readNov 5, 2021
Republicans cleaned up during Tuesday’s election and no one saw it coming. Why?
Since long before 2016, when the utterly unforeseen election of Donald Trump shook news pundits on three continents, polling was starting to go awry.
The equally-surprising passing of Brexit in the U.K. should have tipped U.S. pollsters gearing up for the 2016 presidential election…