The outcome of a race is ultimately up to voters to decide. And while polls aren’t always perfect, they can be helpful to gauge support for a candidate and inform decisions for a campaign. CNN Political Director David Chalian sits down with prominent Republican pollster Neil Newhouse to discuss the state of the GOP presidential primary, what it’s like to be ... Show More
Oct 2024
How to make sense of political polls
<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As Election Day looms, we’re seeing more and more headlines based on poll results. Some declare Trump and Harris </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/polling-harris-trump-pennsylvan ... Show More
27m 33s
Nov 2020
About Those Polls…
<p>Nate Cohn, an expert on polling for The New York Times, knows that the predictions for the 2016 presidential election were bad.</p><p>But this year, he says, they were even worse.</p><p>So, what happened?</p><p>Nate talks us through a few of his theories and considers whether, ... Show More
33m 47s
Oct 2024
How not to get fooled by “biased polls” this election
Joining Playbook’s Eugene Daniels on this episode of Deep Dive are two pollsters who know how to find the signal in what has been a very noisy election. John Anzalone aka “Anzo,” was Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama’s pollster. And Greg Strimple is a veteran of John M ... Show More
42m 32s