The real "crisis" in polling

Issue polling is difficult and imprecise. But if anything, the crisis is in political analysis

An old “issue” poll. (Yeah, I think we can do better than this.)

Dear reader,

I joined this week’s 538 politics podcast to discuss the alleged “crisis” in issue polling — a case argued recently by New York Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn. In an article, Cohn writes that “there’s a case that ‘issue’ polling faces a far graver crisis than ‘horse rac…