MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell August 29, 2018
Pollsters only get surprised by the strength of insurgencies. Its never a surprise that the establishment candidate, no matter what year were talking about, turns out to be stronger than we thought. Thats never the thing they miss. Well, prognostication is often based on poll numbers and stuff, but also you look for endorsements, you look for money, you look for the professionalism of the campaign, you look for ads. If youre prognosticating in an old school fashion, you add up all this stuff that tends to be a sort of oblique measurement of establishment support. And so when establishment cand...