Presidential election polls are increasingly inaccurate, make the media look bad and stress everybody out. So do we really need hundreds of them before Election Day? By James Hibberd Writer-at ...

Exit polls don’t have a very good track record, and they can contribute to misleading narratives on election night. By Kaleigh Rogers Kaleigh Rogers has been covering election polling since 2019.

That's why we do things like publish ratings of pollster accuracy and transparency and make complex election forecasting models to explore what would happen if the polls are off by as much as they ...

Tens of millions of Americans are headed to the polls across the country Tuesday, but polling locations won't remain open forever. Here are the poll closing times for every state in the country.

“Polls did pretty well, and performance seems to be getting better as the vote-counting continues,” Dr. Christopher Wlezien, a professor of government at the University of Texas in ...

And as polls close and votes are being tallied across the county, Americans will begin the wait to determine outcomes from local and national elections. One tool used to try to make sense of the ...

President-elect Donald Trump made a stunning political comeback, largely outperforming how polls expected him to do for the third election in a row. But this election's results brought clarity to ...

The polls mostly got it right. Broadly speaking, the aggregate of the 2024 presidential election polls indicated that it was an extremely close race between former Republican President Donald ...

Anyone who has watched Election Day coverage in the past, or is excited to do so in the hotly contested 2024 election, has probably heard anchors or analysts refer to exit polls. But what are they ...

I’m a pollster and a former political data journalist. I knew that if the polls whiffed again — like they did in 2020 — Americans would write off polling as irreparably broken. Now ...

These two things are true about the presidential race: The polls currently show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump effectively tied. And close polls do not ...

If you vote today for the 2024 presidential election, you might be asked to take an exit poll when you leave your polling location. You might be wondering what they’re for. Exit polls are ...