Title: Election Bias: Comparing Polls and Twitter in the 2016 U.S. Election,
Abstract: While the polls have been the most trusted source for election predictions
for decades, in the recent presidential election they were called inaccurate
and biased. How inaccurate were the polls in this election and can social media
beat the polls as an accurate election predictor? Polls from several news
outlets and sentiment analysis on Twitter data were used, in conjunction with
the results of the election, to answer this question and outline further
research on the best method for predicting the outcome of future elections.