Pollsters Offer Insiders’ Advice on Appraising the Races

With the two major-party presidential nominees this year all but certain, pollsters gathered in a hotel conference room here on the third day of the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s annual symposium with a colorful yet pointed message for their peers, the news media, and consumers of political news: Don’t pay so much attention to the horse-race polls that dominate coverage of the campaign. …

Steven Shepard, National Journal