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2012 Poll Accuracy: After Obama, Models And Survey Science Won The Day

WASHINGTON -- While the election's biggest winner was President Barack Obama, the other victory on Tuesday night went to the careful application of reason, data and, yes, to the science of modern survey research.The losers were the amateur poll mavens who sought to "unskew" the polls and the pundits who saw what they wanted to see."Nobody knows anything," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote on Monday, casting aside the notion that the "the weighting of the polls and the assumptions as to who will vote" could possibly provide accurate guidance on the coming election.Read More... More on Barack Obama

 

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