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We're still more than a year away from the 2016 presidential election, but early polls say that GOP candidate Donald Trump is ahead, and that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has a fighting chance against Hillary Clinton.
But do the polls tell the whole story? As it turns out, most of these early numbers are not only misleading, they're often false.
Neal Beck, a professor of politics at New York University, explains.
