Saturday, September 7, 2024

Special Edition: Are Polls Accurate? Here’s What to Know Before Election Day

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We are less than two months away from Election Day now, so what can we learn from those weekly polls? Should we even pay attention to them? 

Our guest today analyzes American campaigns and elections. Kyle Kondik is the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

He explains how polls work in today’s world, why the polls failed in 2016, and whether we should rely on them this time around.

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Guest: Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball

Kyle Kondik is managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ authoritative, nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections. He is the author of The Long Red Thread, a history of the growth of Republican power in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as The Bellwether, an analysis of Ohio’s presidential voting history.

Before joining the Center for Politics in 2011, Kyle served as director of policy and research for former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and as a reporter, editorial page editor, and political columnist at newspapers in Northeast Ohio. He earned his MA in Government from Johns Hopkins University in 2019.

He lives in Northeast Washington, D.C. with his wife, Lottie Walker, and their young son, Albert. He is a native of greater Cleveland, Ohio.

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