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US Presidential Election 2016: The Polls That Got It Right Before Election Day
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A poll that seemingly projected the Brexit result correctly predicted Donald Trump as the winner of the United States presidential election. Poll director Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute, which is a think tank based in Washington and London, claimed:
The poll results were derived from automatic landline and cell phone contact with about 1,300 likely voters from 3 November to 6 November, based on which Trump was getting support from independent voters among other constituency groups.
Democracy Institute noted that though Clinton is very popular with minority voters, Trump has double the support among African Americans than Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican party nominee.
The IBD/TIPP poll, which also has a reputation of predicting largely accurately, gave Trump a two-point national edge over Clinton. Earlier, statistician Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog stated that because of several undecided voters, polling error risk is higher than normal.
Other renowned polling sites like Hypermind gave Clinton a 74 per cent chance of winning the White House while the New York Times’ Upshot model gave Clinton an 84 per cent chance of winning the election.
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