To Win In 2020, Democrats Must Not Ignore The Polls

The texts kept dinging in, most of them one word long: “fuck.” But also, “how could this be happening?” and “what do we do now?” It was November 8, 2016, and America was stunned. Around water coolers, at dinner tables, in bars, and throughout the media, one question echoed: how could the pollsters have gotten the outcome of this election so wrong?

You know the rest, no need to belabor it. One of the less-significant (in the short term, anyway) outcomes of the polling disaster that was the 2016 US Presidential Election was Democrats’ new…