By Jonathan Easley - 10/25/16 06:00 AM EDT
Want a tough job? Try being a pollster two weeks before Election Day.
Donald Trump is ripping pollsters and the media, arguing the surveys are biased against him because many include too many Democrats in their sampling surveys.
Conservative news sites have pounced on Trump’s arguments, pointing to a trio of national polls that show the race between the Republican and Democrat Hillary Clinton is a toss-up.
Trump and his supporters argue that mainstream pollsters are under-sampling Republicans to account for a rise in Independents, while failing to account for an enthusiasm gap that favors Trump or the new voters he could bring into the fold.
A half-dozen pollsters interviewed by The Hill acknowledged the difficulties of polling the 2016 race.
They blamed unprecedented volatility, two historically unpopular candidates, fast-changing voter behavior patterns and shifting demographics. All of those factors make it tough to figure out exactly who will show up on Election Day.
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