Public opinion polling is a powerful practice: It legitimizes sentiment, crystallizes reality. It’s irresistible to political journalists. And, for several decades now, John Zogby, class of 1970 at Le Moyne College, has been one of its highest profile practitioners – featured in The New Yorker, a repeat guest on The Daily Show, and namechecked on The West Wing and House of Cards. From his near-perfect call of Clinton in 1996, Zogby has polled across the aisle and around the world. A self-professed political junkie, he once ran for mayor himself – and knew just how much he was going to lose by before election day hit. He’s written books about tribal identity in America and the global sensibility of its millennial generation and advocated on behalf of his fellow Arab-Americans through the dark discrimination of the War on Terror and the attempted Muslim ban. In episode 3 of Formative, we talk about whether polling has gone haywire on Trump, the high that comes from knowing what’s going to happen in the future before anyone else does, and what it’ll take to find some common good that might put our broken nation back together again.