Younger voters are harder to reach, but pollsters attempt to compensate for that by upweighting the younger voters they do reach to match their projected composition of the electorate, as @fshakir surely knows.
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This adds error/uncertainty, and primary polling is generally a rough enterprise, but the polls are probably about as likely to be overestimating Sanders as underestimating him.
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For instance, Sanders is doing worse with voters who are paying a lot of attention to the campaign, which might be a sign that he'll *lose* ground with the actual electorate (or in likely voter polls) as compared with the registered voter polls you see now.
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Overall, I remain taken by surprise at how taken by surprise the Sanders campaign seems to be that Biden is polling in front of them. A lot will change between now and Iowa and polls could be off even then, but they seem to have a lot of wishful thinking in lieu of a strategy.
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The alternative is to have a sample size that is meaningless. So pollsters add weight to the groups of people (e.g., young folk) who are harder to reach. It's not that older voters are being *oversampled*: it's that young voters are *undersampled*.
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Polls are to be taken with a grain of salt. I have never been polled in my life. Who are these folks that get polled? People with land telephone lines? Not so many folks have a land line anymore.
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It would seem the Democratic primary is oversampling older contenders.
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A problem unique to today's politics: someone mentions misinformation coming from "Sanders", I automatically assume it is the White House version.
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