Intellicast

Are you ready for a new episode of Poll Party? We have a jammed-packed episode this week! The episode starts off a Democratic primary update, specifically the latest Monmouth poll (https://news.yahoo.com/buttigieg-rises-iowa-lead-democratic-185005984.html) that has Mayor Pete leading the pack in Iowa with 22%. Adam and Rory then switch gears and discuss a recent article from Knowable Magazine (https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/election-polls-arent-broken-they-still-cant-predict-future) that talks about how election polls aren’t broken, but shouldn’t be the end-all in predicting an election. The article discusses how close races, swing voters, skewed sample, and other factors come into play. It also discusses the move to a hybrid poling approach, the same approach that we have discussed in previous episodes, and was a main topic at this year’s AAPOR conference. We then get into a topic that is close to our resident Kentuckian, Adam, the Kentucky Governor’s race and how the polls com