Surveys Under Close Scrutiny As US Polls Near

Poll surveys have become an important part of life and government in countries around the world. People in democratic countries get to declare what they want and support openly in periodic elections. In between elections, poll surveys indicate how people think and feel about government programs and plans. And they are used to predict election results.

Poll surveys are now under close scrutiny in the world’s biggest democracy, the United States, which will hold its presidential election in less than two weeks — on November 3. The surveys show that the Republican Party’s President Donald Trump, who is seeking a second four-year term, is well behind the Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden.

But there are many who nurse doubts about these surveys. Because of what happened in the presidential election of 2016.