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The Pros And Cons Of Public Polling

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In this article, Stefan Hankin, the author, investigates the legitimacy of today’s political polls. Throughout the article he accounts for the pitfalls of polling, carefully analyzing both sides of these issues. Overall, Hankin advocates for today’s polls, affirming that while polls are far from perfect, they do tend to be fairly accurate. To start the article Hankin identifies the issue he will be exploring and points to several reasons why public polling has garnered so much distrust, such as failures of polls to predict a handful of recent high profile elections. He then introduces the primary question of the article: “ . . . has public polling really missed the mark enough to warrant a high level of distrust?” The first pitfall of polling
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