Polls Aren’t the Problem. It’s How We Use Them.

How to interpret polling for the midterms. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. It’s been a tough decade for pollsters. Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton didn’t just shock the world, it created an enduring impression that election polling was flawed, perhaps irreparably. Of all of the harsh postmortems on that election’s polling debacle, a two-word headline from The Economist best captured the moment: “Epic fail.” Carroll Doherty is the former director of political research at Pew Research Center. More We Think You’d Like