Jesse Rhodes, Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and Associate Director of the UMass Poll, was quoted in a Boston Globe article about the inaccuracy of pre-election polling. Rhodes said, “Polling within states for presidential races is notoriously difficult. Given the difficulties of predicting outcomes at the state level, it is essential to take any given poll within a battleground state (particularly one that appears to give a candidate a huge advantage) with a very large grain of salt.” (The Boston Globe, picked up by MSN News, 11/4/20)
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