More than six months after the astonishing polling embarrassment in the 2020 U.S. elections, survey experts examining what went wrong are uncertain about what led to the sharpest discrepancy between the polls and popular vote outcome since Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in a near-landslide in 1980.
Lingering questions about the misfire in 2020, in which voter support for then-President Donald Trump was understated in final pre-election polls, suggest that troubles in accurately surveying presidential elections could be deeper and more profound than previously recognized. If the source of the polling miscall isn’t clear, then addressing and correcting it obviously becomes quite challenging.
Survey experts have yet to figure out what caused the most significant polling error in 40 years in Trump-Biden race theconversation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theconversation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Fox News Media filed to dismiss a defamation lawsuit of $1.6 billion brought by Dominion Voting Systems Tuesday.
Dominion originally filed the defamation lawsuit against Fox News in March, accusing the company of advancing false claims of Dominion rigging its voting machines in the 2020 election. The claim said they specifically did so to flip votes to now-President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump, according to Insider.
In the suit, Dominion claimed that Fox News “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes” through the guests they hosted, including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal lawyer.
14 May 2021, 07:05 pm
Venmo has been exposed for its security flaws and issues as President of the United States (POTUS), Joe Biden s account was traced by BuzzFeed News in under 10 minutes within the payment application. This exposure is to prove a point, and it is the safety of people within Paypal s mobile payment system which can also reflect one s friends or contact list.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 20: A person watches Joe Biden sworn in as 46th President Of The United States on their cell phone on January 20, 2021 in New York, United States. U.S. President Joe Biden spoke during his inaugural address and stated this is democracys day.