I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.