MANILA, Philippines — How come some of the major American pollsters got the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election wrong? According to an expert pollster, this could be attributed to difficulties with telephone polling. He explained that most of these polling errors could be “attributed to the fact that we’re seeing the end of telephone polling.” Telephone polling is one of the gold standard methods used by US pollsters. Online samplingBut Gosby said pollsters had a better chance of reaching people and getting better responses through online sampling. He said it was the white voters without a college education who were key supporters of Trump.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 08, 2020 20:58 UTC