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Just How Wrong Were The Polls?

The 2016 polls were more accurate than those for the last US presidential election, argues Harry Enten of the number crunching website 538.com. That鈥檚 despite the polls failing to predict Donald Trump would win this year, and correctly predicting Obama would be re-elected in 2012.

(Photo: Voters cast ballots at a polling station at the Big Bear Lake Methodist Church in Big Bear, California, November 8, 2016. Credit Getty Images)

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