# Polling is broken, right? Or is it the news? Or all of the US?

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> [@DigitalC](#):
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> From what I keep hearing **there has been zero mention of any R voters for Harris swing in any single polls**. If it is happening more than the normal few %s that happen every election it is not reflected at all any where.

(my emphasis)

**[No, such polls are out there.](https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-winning-republicans-pennsylvania-1970137)** They are few in number and don’t get repeated periodically like the horse-race polls. This one is specific to Pennsylvania:

> A _New York Times_ /Siena College/_Philadelphia Inquirer_ poll found Harris winning 12 percent of Republicans in the state. It surveyed 857 likely voters from October 7 to 10 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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