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Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/statewide-opinion-polling-for-the-2024-united-states-presidential-election

Step 2 · Questions

1. What is the election year?
2. What is the states identified as competitive (NPR analysis)?

Step 3 · Words to know

Write what each word means, using the article.

Electoral College
Battleground State
Margin of Error
Demographic Shifts

Step 4 · Two facts in your own words

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

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Answer key (teacher copy)

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the election year?2024
2. What is the states identified as competitive (NPR analysis)?Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

Electoral College: A body of electors established by the U.S. Constitution, which elects the president and vice president.
Battleground State: A state where the outcome of an election is uncertain and closely contested between major parties.
Margin of Error: A statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results.
Demographic Shifts: Changes in the characteristics of a population over time, affecting voting patterns.