
By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
(CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do.
Even the most carefully conducted polls are imprecise snapshots of public opinion, not precision instruments — and when they’re pressed into predictive tools, they don’t always get it right. But
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