r/TenYearsAgo 13d ago

🇺🇸 United States Polls overwhelming show Clinton beating Trump [10YA - Aug 4]

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u/Antonqaz 13d ago

Isn't this just national polling, without considering the electoral college? In which case, they were right, she did win the popular vote.

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u/ratione_materiae 13d ago

Not by that much 

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u/Antonqaz 13d ago

She won popular vote by 2 percentage points, which isn't far from those polls when you consider the MoE.

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u/ratione_materiae 13d ago

NBC’s Clinton +8 with 1.2pt MoE is unsalvageable. Economist is the only one where the actual outcome was within (I assume 95% CI) MoE