Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives? "When we refer to “political junkies,” polls are pretty much the junk."
The real problem with the 2022 news coverage is not that it was off target, but rather that “prognostication-as-reporting is utterly dysfunctional.”
Momentum may have shifted to the GOP. It may not have. One poll, flawed or not, tells us nothing.
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