As Americans await the presidential election results, many are looking to the polls for clues. A poll’s margin of error describes how close a survey result can ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. There are two things that affect the margin of error (MOE). They are the poll ...

Comparing current polling to 2020’s results, President Joe Biden cannot win reelection in 2024. To win in 2020, Biden had to roll up a big popular-vote margin to squeak to victory in the Electoral ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in an extremely close contest, according to a new national poll conducted entirely after President Biden announced he was ...

When pollsters screw up their predictions—as so many of them have in recent election years—they like to say that the results were “well within the margin of ...

MARGIN OF ERROR….Teagan Goddard sez: According to a new Pew Research poll, Sen. Barack Obama’s national lead over Sen. John McCain has disappeared. The race is now a statistical tie, with Obama barely ...