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    Polls misread Trump's support, but less than you think

    by David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Nov 06, 2020 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON — As returns from quick-counting states such as Florida and Texas flowed in Tuesday night, pollsters quickly became targets in America's easily triggered political culture.

    With Democratic challenger Joe Biden running well behind poll-created expectations in those states, accusations of "collapse" and "disaster" peppered the nation's pollsters. President Donald Trump added to the fusillade Thursday by accusing them of deliberately releasing false results to discourage his supporters from voting.

    But as states have counted more results, the picture has shifted: Polls did underestimate Trump's vote, but by a relatively small amount — less, for example, than they underestimated President Barack Obama's strength in 2012, when he ran for reelection.

    Biden leads

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