Every day is not Election Day. Most days are not Election Day. Most of what happens in the years between elections won’t affect what happens on Election Day. Yet the United States’ political culture has become singularly obsessed with elections, directing us away from important debates about issues and turning every question into an analysis of Wisconsin swing voters. …
But the problem isn’t really polling. Rather, it’s the use of polls to center everything that happens in politics around those November 2022 swing voters in Wisconsin. We can have election month, maybe even election season, but when every day is Election Day, we are robbing our politics of real, substantive debates to instead concentrate on possible electoral outcomes that we can’t predict or control anyway. CONTINUED
Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post
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