Polls as accurate as they have ever been, study says

US president Harry S. Truman holds up an election day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune that, based on early results, mistakenly announced “Dewey Defeats Truman” in 1948.It seemed to be a hat trick of polling catastrophes: Brexit, the 2016 US presidential election and the 2017 British general election.“A lot of people have claimed that polling is in crisis, that there have been political evens that surprised us over the last year … [but] what does the data say?,&rdquo