Main content
Just How Wrong Were The Polls?
The 2016 polls were more accurate than those for the last US presidential election, argues Harry Enten of the number crunching website 538.com. That’s despite the polls failing to predict Donald Trump would win this year, and correctly predicting Obama would be re-elected in 2012.
(Photo: Voters cast ballots at a polling station at the Big Bear Lake Methodist Church in Big Bear, California, November 8, 2016. Credit Getty Images)
Duration:
This clip is from
More clips from Why Did The Polls Get it Wrong (Or Did They)?
-
![]()
Mobile phones and missed elections
Duration: 01:19
More clips from The Inquiry
-
![]()
Ukraine war: How Russia benefits from Europe buying its gas
Duration: 03:47
-
![]()
How the Ukrainian resistance is exposing Russian weakness
Duration: 03:19
-
![]()
West African coups: What comes next?
Duration: 03:23
