Not all polls are created equal. Here's 538's guide to interpreting them. It's the fall of an election year, which means you're probably seeing a lot of news stories about polls. But they can be ...

On a special episode (first released on September 11, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: In the wake of the Trump-Harris debate, there's a firehose worth of new polls out, each purporting to show ...

The NBA is recruiting poll workers in partnership with Power the Polls and Vet the Vote. Here's how to get involved. NBA.com Staff Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo and Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jared ...

Former President Donald Trump has returned to a time-honored tradition of his: citing junk online polls to claim he was the clear winner of a presidential debate that scientific polls found he lost.

In fact, in 2020 the national polls were further off than in 2016. The final RCP average predicted a 7-point victory for Biden, though he prevailed in the real popular vote by 4.5 points.

Given that many polls already have the battleground states balanced on a knife-edge, the idea of history repeating itself is a Democratic nightmare. “I think we still have to worry about a Trump ...

After polling misses in 2016 and 2020, how should we feel about 2024? The case for and against this year’s polls. Christian Paz is a senior politics reporter at Vox, where he covers the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has made up significant ground on former President Trump in Iowa, a state previously thought to be safely in the former president’s column. Harris has narrowed Trump ...

Voters in the US go to the polls on 5 November to elect their next president. The election was initially a rematch of 2020 but it was upended in July when President Joe Biden ended his campaign and ...

The results of the poll may be encouraging for the Harris campaign, as Pennsylvania's 19 Electoral College votes could prove crucial along the candidates' paths to victory in November. However ...

A string of recent polls is delivering warning signs for Vice President Harris ahead of Tuesday evening’s critical presidential debate. A New York Times/Siena College poll released Sunday showed ...