Polls Were Wildly Wrong In Favor Of Democrats (Guest Post)

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Flopping Aces: Polls Were Wildly Wrong In Favor Of Democrats (Guest Post)

By: Robert H. Lee

Now that the Senate elections are over (apart from the Louisiana runoff and Alaska), I have noticed that the actual results were very different than what the polls indicated. Polls showed the Republicans slightly ahead, giving the Democrats an outside chance of retaining the Senate.

 

Instead the Republicans enjoyed a landslide and won 7 Senate seats so far with two more to be determined. I predict that once the Alaska votes are counted and after the December runoff in Louisiana, Republicans will end up with a net gain of 9 seats.

 

For some reason or another, the polls underestimated Republican strength. This made the contest seemed close. What happened in the end was a Republican landslide. Let me run through the pertinent examples. http://floppingaces.net/2014/11/08/polls-were-wildly-wrong-in-favor-of-democrats-guest-post/