Pollster Ann Selzer has vowed to review the data after her weekend poll on the presidential race in Iowa turned out to be wrong by 16 points.
Though counting is still ongoing in the state after Tuesday’s election, President-elect Donald Trump won the state’s 6 Electoral College votes with 55.9 percent of the vote compared to Vice President Kamala Harris‘s 42.7 percent, per estimates from the Associated Press.
What Was Ann Selzer’s Prediction?
The Iowa poll, conducted by Selzer & Company for The Des Moines Register/ Mediacom, found Harris had a three-point lead over Trump in the state, 47 percent to the Republican‘s 44 percent.
The poll surveyed 808 likely voters in Iowa between October 28 and 31 with its shock result falling within the poll’s 3.4 percent margin of error.
Announcing her findings on Saturday, Selzer, previously described as “the best pollster in politics” by aggregator FiveThirtyEight, said Harris had “clearly leaped into a leading position.”
However, the …