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PRESIDENT Joe Biden - pictured during a visit to the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennysylvania, yesterday - was at least correctly predicted by polls to win the presidency this time around, but pollsters still have to solve problems with their surveys to regain confidence. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP

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STATESIDE: Problems for the pollsters - they just can’t get it right

Public opinion polling here in The Bahamas is neither high art nor exact science. In fact, if we weren’t bombarded with references on American television stations to the latest “breaking news” from some poll or another in the US, we might not pay any attention at all to this often influential, lucrative but decreasingly reliable method of determining public attitudes on social, political and economic issues.

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