It's the argument I'm Jane Kostin.

We're in the final countdown to the midterm elections.

And as usual, there are a lot of polls flying around about who's up, who's down, and what

that means for the House and the Senate, for democracy, for you.

But after the disaster of the 2016 poll predictions and 2020 feeling off base too, I've got a lot

of questions about what we're getting wrong in A, how we conduct polls and treat poll

results.

And B, whether our increased interest in polling is a good thing for our politics, or really,

for us.

Anyone who knows me knows I hate the horse race polls leading up to any election that

treat major elections like fun sporting events with zero consequences.

I used to report on sports.

I love sports.

But politics are not sports.

Sports are entertainment.

Sports are fun.

They don't determine if you can live in a certain neighborhood, get to work on time or

get work period, or afford to feed your family.

Politics do.

But clearly there's an appetite for predictive polling.

So who better to confront with my problems as polling than two people who deal with polls

every day.

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