French pollsters have always had some trouble with the Le Pens, but FWIW they've sometimes missed high instead of low.
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THe polls at 2002 rocketed the FN to joint second days before the election. It was a surprise but the pollsters did see the surge.
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There is no message whatsoever coming out of that history, other than polls are just polls.
That's not even a particularly notable amount of "trouble" for polls though, right?
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It happens in every country with extreme candidates. People being surveyed do not answer truthfully. Same with Farage or Lega Nord.
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Do you know of pollsters correcting answers to polls? I don't. Happy to change my mind.
They select a better pool, or they ask better questions. Are you sure that they change the answers?
This one I agree with. Two many forces working at the same time to draw an inference based on 5 or 6 data points.
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