Abstract
Pre-election polls provide newsworthy checks on the validity of the polling process itself. Pollsters and media often prefer to avoid such checks, and so they offer ambiguous results capable of a variety of post-election interpretations. The most popular ambiguity-preserving device is to do nothing about the undecided who can then be blamed for whatever deviations occur between the poll and the outcome. Newspaper readers deserve better treatment with final pre-election polls presented so straightforward comparisons between polls and elections can be made.
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