The Literary Digest poll predicted incorrectly that in the 1936 election that the Republican candidate for president would beat the Democratic candidate. The cause of this error was:

A) its sample of respondents was biased
B) it asked the wrong questions
C) it had a faulty control group
D) there was a computer glitch in the analysis


A

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