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Does anyone else remember how, in the 2016 election, there was this one weird poll that constantly showed an edge for Trump while all the others showed Hillary winning easily? The LA Times Tracking poll. Here's what it looked like at the end: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-clinton but IIRC it was almost always like that.

Whatever happened with that? Did they just... stop doing that poll? I can't find any current polling results from the LA Times or USC. IIRC they had a weird format where, instead of polling different each week, they polled the same people over and over. It sounds dumb but somehow it ended up working, so I'm surprised that it just went quietly went away and no other polling group tried to copy their methods.

Also IIRC their poll gave Trump a much larger amount of support from black voters specifically, but it was literally just one black guy in their sample group who really loved Trump. But I can't find any sources for that now- am I just hallucinating all of this? Or has Google memory-holed all of this?

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