HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – The way that polls were taken during the presidential election are being questioned because of their inaccuracy in predicting a Donald Trump win.
What happened with the early polling leading up to the election? Dr. David Ryden Professor of Political Science at Hope College says it goes to show that the “sciency” part of political science is still iffy.
“In terms of the polling, what pollsters are trying to do, everything they do is premised on kind of a model of whose voting or who will be voting. My sense is that they had a voter model that was not accurate. It’s tough to gauge. It’s increasingly tough to gauge in an era of cellphones over landlines and other things that make it difficult to poll the American public.”
Ryden also says rural America is tough to poll and that there may have been a hidden Trump vote. Not everyone is always honest and wouldn’t admit they were going to vote for Trump says Ryden.
