There Are Fewer Polls This Cycle Because of ... Poll Aggregators?
When pollsters don't want to poll.
The poll coverage this cycle may not have let up—we don’t have the numbers to say for sure—but there have been fewer polls to cover, according to Vox’s Matthew Yglesias.
The problem is particularly prominent in states “that are somewhat bluer than the national average,” like Colorado and Wisconsin, making it harder to create data-driven guesses about the state of the race there.
The reasons Yglesias cites are the product of contemporary culture.
For one, there’s phone phobia: “Fewer people pick up the phone and talk to pollsters, so you need to make more calls to get a decent sample.
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