Conservative pundit says don't trust modern political polls

October 13, 2015

Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University political scientist and former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, warns that no one should underestimate the challenges polling faces today.

“We are less sure how to conduct good survey research now than we were four years ago, and much less than eight years ago,” Zukin wrote in an op-ed.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 13

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