Polling and path dependency | #202 – July 17, 2022

Thank you all for making pub week for Strength in Numbers a success

Dear readers,

I wanted to send my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped make the publication week for my new book a success. Ironically, I do not have any numbers on the performance of Strength in Numbers — it is too early for any sales numbers or rankings, and in any case I wouldn’t know what to compare them to anyway — but I do have some things to share for anyone who has missed out certain events, interviews and etc.

First, I am thankful to everyone who turned out for the launch event with Jamelle Bouie at Politics & Prose, Washington’s best and biggest indie bookshop and coffee house. A recording of the live Q&A has been uploaded here. I also talked to WIRED magazine about whether pollsters have improved their methods ahead of this year’s midterm elections — which you can read (for free, I think) here.

Meanwhile, I had an interesting discussion with a panel of pollsters and political prognosticators hosted by AEI’s Survey Center on American Life. Amy Walter, who was there, wr…