Can you really trust the polls considering the 2016 election of President Trump? Nearly every pollster in the country had Hillary Clinton winning and by a large margin which is why it was such a shock when Donald Trump became president.
Anthony Salvanto, director of elections and surveys for CBS News and author of Where Did You Get This Number? A Pollster’s Guide to Making Sense of the World, says a poll is more than just a bunch of numbers and true pollsters want to dig deep.
“There’s not just science involved but art. It’s not numbers, but putting together what the American people think. What we as pollsters do is really want to understand where people are coming from. Why do people agree or disagree? Why are positions harder to have today and to express? There’s so much polarization that conversations are getting harder to have. Part of the reason pollsters got it wrong in 2016 was that there wasn’t enough polling in the upper Midwest. That’s a lesson we’ve learned moving forward for 2018.”
Salvanto was a guest on McIntyre in the Morning.
Sharon Reardon, KABC News
