1. Set Focus
Frame the inquiry with these essential questions: What factors should people consider when choosing a candidate to vote for? What kinds of information are unnecessary or possibly detrimental to the political process?
2. Read and Discuss
Have students read the debate and then answer the following questions:
- What is the issue being debated? How does it relate to current events? (The issue is whether political polling is still useful. The issue is timely because the polls did not correctly predict the winner of the 2016 election and overestimated the margins Biden would win by in 2020.)
- Evaluate why these two authors might be interested in and qualified to comment on this issue. (Rom is a professor of public policy. Saad is an executive at a national polling company, which benefits financially from the continuing use of polls.)