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Mr. Morden
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« on: October 21, 2010, 09:56:11 PM »

They are probably each going in the field again before the election so there's no use in comparing them now.

Yes.  Like I said here:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=126446.msg2690524#msg2690524

polls often converge towards the same answer at the end of the race, and since the polls taken in the last week are the ones that people use to measure "pollster accuracy", we have no real way of ever measuring "who was right" for the polls taken weeks and months before the election.  Unfortunately, we have no way of checking the accuracy of polls, except the ones taken right before the election.
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