What the polls can tell us about the presidential race
WASHINGTON - With Labor Day - the traditional start of the campaign season - almost here, a raft of new polls is giving insights into which candidates lead the 2020 presidential race and why and what Americans think about the issues the country faces.
It's commonplace for people to say they don't trust polls or don't like them. Certainly some politicians misuse them to substitute numbers for principles. And polls are, of course, no more perfect than any other human invention.
But despite much carping to the contrary, polls have a remarkably good record of accuracy in American elections - even in 2016. More important, polling is the one element of the political process that allows us to hear directly what voters from all parts of the country and all walks of
