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The D.C. Brief

For most of any two-year election cycle, but especially as we get closer to Election Day, we are flying blind. Despite all the campaign ads and rehearsed speeches and faux scandals and, in some rare cases, actual in-person debates, we don’t know which team is going to do better. We don’t like that uncertainty. As in sports, we like to glance at a scoreboard to have a clear marker about whether the Red Team or the Blue Team is up. So in the interim, we turn to the political junkie’s drug of choice: polls.

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