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Originally Posted by Joshua G
5 points is not near the margin of error. accurate polling would be in range of the actual result not numerous points off. please do point out the RCP poll that had handel +5. somehow, their polls are always wrong, & to the left of reality. Gee why does this keep happening?
can someone lib-splain to RCP that polls are supposed to reflect reality not liberal wishful thinking?
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If you look at the list of polls RCP uses you will see one called Trafalgar that had her up by 2 points a couple of days ago. It has a margin of error 2.9 meaning her up by 4.9 is in the margin of error. The WSB poll done on the same day had it tied but had a 4.4 margin of error. The only poll that was done within the week of the election that was off was the Fox 5 poll which had Ossoff +1, but it also had a margin of error of 4.2 so they weren't off by a whole lot.
These polls did reflect reality which is that it was a very close race. The Republicans got a higher turnout than expected so they clearly did a better job of getting their voters out and to the polls.