Pre-election polls this year underestimated the strength of statewide Democratic candidates. In recent presidential elections, they underestimated the GOP share. A new report on the pre-election poll ...

In a long-awaited report about last year’s pre-election polls, the country’s largest survey research organization proclaimed “a substantial recovery in overall polling accuracy” from 2020 and declared ...

Political races are already heating up in 2026 — and so is the flood of polling that will try to predict the outcomes. But, ...

At a time of maximum popular mistrust of major political institutions, the polling industry hasn’t been immune from battering. Indeed, now, as ever, we can periodically read angry screeds suggesting ...

Election polls have always been interesting. But this year, they have become official players in the Democratic presidential primary race, because polling badly means you don’t get to debate. It is a ...

Democrats aren’t the only ones celebrating after the 2025's elections. So are political pollsters. Although the polling industry materially undercounted the backing for the winning candidates and ...