National political polls showed Hillary Clinton was going to win in 2016. And then she didn’t… And polls leading into 2020 mostly had Joe Biden winning. And then he did….So as a pollster, I often get asked: “why were the polls so bad in 2016, and what happened to correct them for 2020?” The problem with this question is that the general election #polls of 2016 were in fact more accurate than the general election polls of 2020. What was misleading is the interpretation of the