Journalists have no idea how the 2020 election will play out. And that’s a good thing. Some of the country’s top political journalists came together last week for a gathering convened by the strategist David Axelrod, to talk about how to cover the presidential race in a way that won’t leave anybody dumbfounded on election night. …
The CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny cautioned conferencegoers to steer clear of prognostication. “We’re not in the predictions business, so don’t act like we are,” he said. “We don’t know the outcome, and we should embrace that.”
Or, as Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report, put it, reporters talking about polls are a lot like preteens talking about sex. “They know all the words. They talk about it a lot. But they have no idea what they’re talking about,” she said. CONT.
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times