Column: 5 political questions for 2021
After getting many political predictions wrong in 2016, including but not limited to the results of the presidential election, I threw my long-cherished crystal ball out and started building a new one. Figuratively speaking, of course. I stopped relying on the polling aggregator I built earlier the decade. I took fewer glances at the aggregators built by other pundits and political websites. Instead, I looked at a broader set of metrics â survey data about public attitudes instead of partisan preferences, for example, and trends in voter registration and behavior. I also started talking ...