Can We Trust Polls in 2020? How Experts Are Forecasting the Election

<p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> On this week’s episode of Tying It Together with Tim Boyum, we tackle the issue of polling and prognosticating in the <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/politics/2020elections">2020 election</a>. </p> <p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> After the election in 2016, pollsters took a big hit. Now that we are once again hearing about polls almost every day, many wonder, have things changed? Can we trust polls? </p> <p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> Tim and Ben get national pollster and North Carolina resident <a href= "https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/about/tom-jensen/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Jensen</a> to weigh in on the subject. We also talk with Kyle Kondik of <a href= "http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Sabato’s Crystal Ball</a