Since the decision was made, polls show North Carolina has returned to the Republican fold and is no longer regarded as a toss-up state.
Elections officials in states that Hurricane Sandy hit last week are scrambling to make it possible for registered voters to cast ballots on Tuesday after storm damage and power failures displaced many residents and made polling places unusable.
Among the many examples of powerful formulas that O'Neil cites in her book, political polling doesn't come up, even though this election cycle has made polling's power more talked about than ever before.
And as I've been arguing for years, tech-driven social changes has made polling a whole lot less reliable, which doesn't affect the results, but can make them much more shocking.
A somewhat different assessment, from Eric McGhee, finds that the greater volume of polling in elections since 2004 has made poll-based forecasts (based on aggregating all polls) more accurate.
-Alan Reifman and Sylvia Niehuis study whether calling cell phones made polls more accurate in the 2014 election.
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BUT still 50+percentt is really good when you consider we explicitly tried to make poll creation as fast and easy as possible.
Nevertheless, this will make poll-reading more difficult.
