Polls Show a Blue Wave Coming. Why Are Democrats Still Nervous?
We'll talk to pollsters about how they gather their data and how methods have changed over the years.
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Airdate: Monday, November 2, 2026 at 9 am
Democrats are poised to take the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate on Tuesday – at least that’s what recent polls tell us. But as we learned in the 2016 election, polls can be wrong. We’ll talk to pollsters about how they gather their data, how their methods have changed over the years, and the key races they’re looking at this midterm election.
Guests:
- Michael Dimock, president, Pew Research Center
- Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, Marquette Law School
- Mike Madrid, political strategist; author, “The Latino Century: How America’s Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy”; co-founder, The Lincoln Project