It’s been almost a decade since I first attended the annual convention of pollsters, generally known as AAPOR.
Again then, it was a really totally different place. It was dominated by conventional pollsters who knew change was inevitable however who appeared uncomfortable with the sacrifices required to accommodate new folks, strategies and concepts.
On the time, that gathering jogged my memory of the Republican Get together, which was then grappling with how one can take care of demographic change and Hispanic voters within the wake of Barack…