Whats been the toughest aspect of covering this years presidential elections?
I think it’s keeping your eyes wide open and not getting caught up in any particular storyline, because just when you think there’s a storyline that has been settled, it switches on you. Originally, we thought this was a race that was going to be over in a few weeks. Now, a wider, broader diversity of people get a say. Every candidate has to test him- or herself in ways they hadn’t anticipated at every turn. There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction with election coverage. Are too many reporters relying on polls and conventional wisdom to judge an unpredictable race? There were some cases when the polls were wrong, but there were a lot more where they were actually pretty much dead-on. What you want to get from a poll is what people are thinking and what’s driving their decisionmaking. Who’s going to win – that’s the least reliable part of exit polls. It’s all how you use the information, not whether the information itself was faulty. We’re talking just a few hours after Republican Mi
