Odd-year election offers preview of what is working and what is not before 2024

With the odd-year elections wrapping up and a presidential election now squarely in the future, many retrospectives focus on winners and losers. A better approach seems to be looking at what is working and what is not working.

Last Tuesday’s election provided plenty of guidance. For Democrats, for Republicans, for election workers and election reform advocates and for the media covering it all.

Opinion Polling — Not Working for Anyone. On a broad level, opinion polling continues its erratic performance. It seems that for most of the past decade pollsters have spent as much time post-election rationalizing misses as they have pre-election pontificating about likely results. This year was not much different.

Days before the election, national media flooded the…