His job is to ensure readers and listeners aren’t surprised on election night — that POLITICO has considered and reported on all possible outcomes, including the outliers — those black swan scenarios with seemingly low probabilities. Not just the most likely ones, according to conventional wisdom.
The specter of 2016 still haunts newsrooms.
Bland and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza dissect how 2016 midterm misses can be applied lessons…