If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

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.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.