Top Greek-American pollster sees a ‘divided USA’

Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Dane Manufacturing, on October 1, in Waunakee, Wisconsin. David Paleologos says that if Kamala Harris beats Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, 'she gets the 270 electoral votes and wins the election.' [Charlie Neibergall/AP]

Anyone who has been keeping a prudent eye on the polls of this year's US presidential election knows that the race is still practically a toss-up. Despite Kamala Harris emerging as a favorite to win the national popular vote, most swing states remain well within the margins of error. As the race is moving to the last weeks, pollsters are working fervently to capture the sentiment in the country's most critical states.

David Paleologos, director of the top-rated Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts and one of the pioneers of the bellwether model, which zooms in on crucial counties to better assess how states may vote, has also been working around the clock. Six weeks before the face-off between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Greek-American pollster who accurately predicted all seven Senate races in 2022, sat down for a chat with...

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