Polls in Argentina Nowhere to Be Found Two Weeks Before Election
- After polls missed badly in primary vote, few go public now
- Pollsters said they over relied on phone surveys in primary
Demonstrators gather ahead of a rally in support of Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, on Sept. 28.
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Less than two weeks before most presidential elections, voters and investors usually keep their eyes glued to opinion polls. But in Argentina they’ve nearly vanished from the public conversation.
Reasons behind their disappearance are obvious. Pollsters on all ends of the political spectrum badly underestimated the performance of opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez in a crucial Aug. 11 primary vote, when he trounced incumbent Mauricio Macri by 16 percentage points.