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2024 polls were accurate but still underestimated Trump

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Polls missed the margin of the election by just 2.94 percentage points in the last three weeks of the campaign.

In 2024 , state-level polling error in 2024 is actually the lowest it's been in at least 25 years .

Polls are also important for the reporting we do here at 538 , which is rooted in data.

Aaron Carroll : Polls overestimated support for Harris by an average of 2.7 points on margin in competitive states.

Carroll: But it's higher than the bias in the 2000 , 2004 , 2008 and 2012 elections.

He says the pattern in the industry is still the same: Pollsters are having a hard time reaching the types of people who support Trump .

Carroll says it's remarkable that polls are as accurate as they are.

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