The Numbers Guy  Grading the Pollsters  Updated Nov. 16, 2006
11:59 p.m. ET  Political polling has come a long way since
"Dewey Defeats Truman."  Pollsters earned high marks in last
week's elections: Surveys correctly predicted that the Democrats
would win control of the House of Representatives, that the
Senate would be closely contested and that Democratic
gubernatorial candidates would sweep into statehouses.  That
doesn't mean that some pollsters didn't do better than others,
however, and...  Available to Subscribers