In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you'll hear the ...

As Americans await the presidential election results, many are looking to the polls for clues. A poll’s margin of error describes how close a survey result can ...

When pollsters screw up their predictions—as so many of them have in recent election years—they like to say that the results were “well within the margin of ...

Q: Do the pollsters know who is going to win the election? A. With the number of polls released every day, you would think that there was a definitive assessment on who is going to win the ...

The 2024 Election season is reaching its crescendo. Labor Day traditionally marks the final stretch ahead of a presidential election, and there are just nine weeks of campaigning left until Election ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! CBS News Election and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto explains the margin of error in survey data and how it can ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in an extremely close contest, according to a new national poll conducted entirely after President Biden announced he was ...

Understanding the confidence interval will help you grasp what an election poll is -- or is not -- saying. As you might have guessed, the media consistently gets it wrong. Candidate Gobermouch is ...

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