College voting events encourage early voting.
College students in North Carolina and Wisconsin marched on their campuses during voting programs to encourage students to vote.
A final poll of the temperature before Election Day by The New York Times and Siena College shows Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in a tied race.
The final NYT/Siena College poll on Friday showed Trump and Harris tied for the popular vote 48% to 48%.
The poll of 2,516 likely voters nationwide was conducted from Oct. 20 to Oct. 23, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
The latest poll shows the race has gotten even closer since the previous Times/Sienna College poll in early October, which showed Harris with a three-point lead over Trump, though the change was erratic. is in the margin of
“A high-profile debate, two attempts on (Trump’s) life, dozens of rallies in seven battleground states and millions spent on advertising have apparently done little to change the race’s momentum,” the Times reported. is,” the Times reported.
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The margin of error describes how accurately we can trust the survey results to be representative of the entire population.
When a candidate’s lead is “within” the margin of error, it is considered a “statistical tie,” according to the Pew Research Center.
Pew also found that a majority of pollsters have changed their ways since the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, where Trump’s performance was not significantly reduced.
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