We frequently retweet this analysis of 2016 polling accuracy & many readers just stop with this Apr 25th Tweet & read no further - they know most 2016 polls showed @realDonaldTrump with no real chance to win. But let's extract a few pollster records by name today, shall we?

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Let's start with the listing of who was most accurate in 2016 and cross reference that with who the @DNC liked enough to approve as a "Qualified" pollster for their 2019-2020 candidate sorting process. That chart is here. Guess who doesn't "Qualify?"

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Now specifically on us - here is our late 2016 presidential results listing. Notice it has a certain GOP candidate frequently leading the @DNC approved & supported candidate. This caused a guy named "Lanny" to write to us & ask when we intended to apologize for our work.

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And here is ABC News/Washington Post - its a likely voters survey & weighted - D38, R31, Ind 27

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https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1184a162016ElectionTrackingNo16.pdf
And here is NBC News/ Wall Street Journal - its a likely voters survey & weighted D34, R28, Ind31

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https://www.scribd.com/document/330170543/9amET-NBCWSJ-release
And here is @cnn . It is a non-existent final poll because they released no final poll in 2016 as you can see. Played it safe. How they would have weighted it therefore - remains a secret.

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And here is @FoxNews - still on the @realDonaldTrump target radar. Unfortunately we can't even tell anymore if it was a likely voters survey (we believe it was) or how weighted because it has been removed from RCP. Here is the link, check it yourself

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-results-11-7-16
And here is our favorite academic institution pollster - The Big Q - otherwise know as THE GOLD STANDARD in polling (according to the chattering classes). It pulled a CNN and played it safe so everyone can feature its unquestionable "transparency, balance & accuracy."

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