“Imagine polls don’t exist. Show me evidence Hillary is winning?” That was the challenge that Charlotte radio host Bill Mitchell posed for his Twitter followers just one week ago. It was an interesting request, given that polls have been used to predict elections with relatively strong reliability for almost a century now.
To cast them aside would require a seriously better and more reliable option for election tracking, preferably with a representative sample, no bias, and a good track record. Although we surely don’t advocate for doing away with the polls, let’s look at some of the alternatives in a world with no polls: CONT.
John H. Johnson & Adam Dettelbach (Edgeworth Economics), The Hill