The polling industry has a lot on the line heading into Tuesday’s midterm election.
Critics blamed pollsters when voters were caught off guard by Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Old cries of “don’t believe the polls” became fevered shouts. And the president has encouraged distrust by calling certain polls “fake” and claiming they are used to “suppress” the vote.
That’s not true. But there is persistent and widespread suspicion about polling, according to, you guessed it, a McClatchy-Marist poll. And it exists on both sides, albeit in different forms. CONT.
Brian Stelter, CNN Business