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Article: Pollsters on notice; Clinton's New Hampshire victory a big surprise.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2008
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Byline: BILL LAMBRECHT - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON - There were plenty of losers in the New Hampshire primary, but nobody took a beating like the pollsters who uniformly failed to predict Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory over Barack Obama.
Pollsters accurately predicted John McCain's comeback win in the GOP race. They nailed John Edwards' third-place finish among Democrats. But at least a dozen polls had the senator from Illinois defeating Clinton, often soundly.
"It was a debacle," asserted David Moore, a former senior analyst with the Gallup Organization who now is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire. "What it shows that ...