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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 28, 2017, 01:42:15 pm
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Democrats burned by polling blind spot
The party didn't just lose among rural white voters, it may have missed them altogether.
By Steven Shepard
03/27/17 05:54 PM EDT
As they investigate the forces behind the party’s stunning losses in November, Democrats are coming to a troubling conclusion. The party didn’t just lose among rural white voters on Election Day, it may have failed to capture them in its pre-election polling as well.
Many pollsters and strategists believe that rural white voters, particularly those without college degrees, eluded the party’s polling altogether — and their absence from poll results may have been both a cause and a symptom of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in several states.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/democrats-trump-polling-236560