b'Are opinion polls accurate?\\xa0 Did they miss the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders?\\xa0 Do they properly measure America\'s increasingly sharp political and cultural divisions?\\xa0 What\'s the difference between a well-designed poll conducted with careful methodology and a sloppy opt-in online survey?
Our guest is Gary Langer, an internationally recognized opinion researcher and longtime director of polling at ABC News. He has overseen and analyzed more than 750 surveys on a broad range of topics.
Gary has a passion for numbers and explains what listeners should know about polls.\\xa0 He tells us that surveys taken at least a year ago - when many pundits dismissed Trump as an outlier - clearly showed that his views on banning oversees Muslim visitors and building a wall along border with Mexico had substantial support among Republican voters. Trump led the \\xa0GOP field throughout the lead-up to the primary season. \\xa0
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