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Polls aside, the US race is still close

US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Photo: AFP)

Barely a week to Election Day and it looks like the race for the White House is all but over.

However, if it looks like pollsters are increasingly on the wrong side of history (Colombia’s referendum, Brexit, the 2015 British election and the Scottish referendum) it could be because they need to triple and quadruple-check their assumptions before making blithe pronouncements.

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