[JumpCrisscross]

> several swing states were off by as much as 5-6 percentage points

Most state polls have margins of error ranging from 3 to 6 points. A 3-point MoE state poll is a really expensive poll.

[timmytokyo]

A properly conducted poll with 1000 respondents has a margin of error of 3.2%. There have been quite a few of these in battleground states this cycle.