Tufts Public Opinion Lab national pre-election poll shows a close race for president

With less than two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election, a new national poll from the Tufts University Public Opinion Lab shows a tight race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for president. Among likely voters in the poll, Harris was narrowly preferred with 49% of the vote compared to 48% for Donald Trump. However, that difference is well within the poll’s margin of error which is 4 points.

Dynamic crosstabs for the poll can be found by following this link.

The Tufts Public Opinion Lab poll was fielded online with panelists recruited from Lucid. The poll was fielded on October 21st — 23rd, 2024. The total sample size for the poll is 1,033 American adult respondents. Post-stratification weights were implemented to make the sample nationally representative of American adults by gender, age, region, education, race, (the interaction of education and race), home ownership status, and 2020 presidential vote. Adult population targets defined using the most recent 5-year American Community Survey. We then applied a probabilistic likely voter model to estimate each respondent’s probability of voting. For more on our likely voter model, see this article. The poll is directed by Brian Schaffner and Caroline Soler and designed by students who are part of the Tufts Public Opinion Lab.