Why are Polls losing Prescience?

January 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Polling
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There was a time when John Zogby, Scott Rasmussen, The Gallup Oranization, and other influential pollsters could effectively predict the outcome of a political race days before the actual contest went down.  Over the last few major elections trends suggest that polling is becoming more and more imprecise.  Last night Hillary Clinton won the New [...]