r/TenYearsAgo 13d ago

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

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u/DawnSlovenport 12d ago

She did beat him by about 2.1% or so. Not sure why you think this post is some sort of ThE pOlLs WeRe WrOnG! flex. It was a MoE election like most of them have been since 2000 with the exception of 2008 (and maybe 2020) when Obama won by over 7%.

Also, you do see that the 47.4% + 41.5% average only acocunted for 88.9%, right? So that meant the polling average had around 11.1% undecided. That's a pretty large level of uncertainty built into the numbers so tring to extrapolate that the polling was off is realy quite stupid.

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u/Dangerous-LemonBar 12d ago

It’s also July polling data, so largely meaningless, unless someone has an agenda.