Commentary

Put Not Your Faith in Princes or Pollsters

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, November 05 2015

Republicans had a pretty good Election Day, all things considered. As the Washington Post put it, “The 2015 election tightened the Republican stranglehold on state government.” Which doesn’t sound very good, but that’s the Post for you. It’s surprising because the polls leading up to many of these contests seemed to suggest that contests that turned out to be lopsided victories for GOP candidates would be close races or might even have gone the other way. Pollsters made similarly mistaken predictions in 2014, another Republican blowout year. Tuesday’s elections…

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