Are national polls of the US presidential race pretty much meaningless?
Are national polls of the US presidential race essentially meaningless? Are there other methods for predicting the winner?
How did pollsters like 538 and PEC fail to accurately predict the 2016 US Presidential Election? How did prediction algorithms used for the US presidential election go wrong? What is the method of presidential election in USA? What are the alternative statistical sampling methods could have been adopted to improve the poll prediction accuracy in the US elections? Which pollster has been the most accurate for presidential polling in the 2016 election cycle? Who seems to be winning the presidential race? Who is the likely winner of the presidential race? If all US States assigned electoral votes proportionally how different would the US Presidential Election results be? Can a USA presidential nominee be disqualified? Who votes in the Democratic and Republican Party primaries to determine presidential candidates in the USA? What counts as a landslide in US Presidential elections? Why did so many news media, poll pundits and analysts fail to predict the 2016 presidential election? What is the US presidential election process? Polling missed the call on Brexit; How accurate are current polling methods and could we see similar forecasting flubs with the Presidential election? Who are the candidates for the 2016 US presidential elections? What do American voters value more in presidential elections? The past record of the candidate or the promises made by him? Does the use of the Electoral College mean US Presidential elections are a "hoax"?  Who is currently winning the presidential election? How do presidential elections work in the US; how do they compare to the presidential elections in Brazil? Which polls were the most consistently accurate during the 2016 campaign? How do presidential elections work in the US, how do the compare to the presidential elections in France? What is your opinion on the US Presidential Election? Why don't third party candidates have a realistic chance in U.S. Presidential elections? Can presidential candidates vote? How can you summarise the 2016 US Presidential elections and the respective candidates to a non-US citizen? What would the 2016 Presidential Election results look like if electoral votes were awarded proportionally? How did fivethirtyeight.com get its predictions about the 2016 race so wrong? How do presidential elections work in the US, how do the compare to the presidential elections in Mexico? Why doesn't FiveThirtyEight open source their election prediction model? What percentage of votes in the 2016 U.S. Presidential race will go to third party candidates?