What part of ‘media bias’ don’t pollsters understand?

Agonizing over why pollsters have been so wrong of late, a respected analyst now suggests the solution may be to go back to live interviews for better results.

In a world where media bias rules, does anyone think that solves their problem?

A previous blog noted media bias will motivate secrecy, thus defective polling.

Odds are, those wanting to hide their leanings in a phone interview will be even more likely to hide them in a personal interview….if willing to interact at all.

Good luck with those public interviews.

In the meantime, it would be a lot more useful to consider not allowing polling results to be publicly announced through the media while polls are still open.

At least then no one can make a case for the media driving election results.

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