AMERICA HAS A (POLLING) PROBLEM

Explain It to Me

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4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Pollsters are starting to panic. There’s headline after headline after headline ahead of the midterms on whether this election cycle’s polling is accurate or not. How does polling actually work? Is it really representative of how voters are feeling and what the outcome will be on Election Day? And when it comes to Democrats, why is polling so wrong? Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report, explains why polls are complicated, lessons to learn from past elections, and what we could expect this November. References: Which Midterm Polls Should We Be Taking With a Grain of Salt? Pollsters fear they’re blowing it again in 2022 Hosts: Jonquilyn Hill (@jonquilynhill) Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser A.M. Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.6	Hey, I'm John Hlandhill.
0:47.1	I'm a producer here at Vox and I'll be hosting the weeds as we gear up for the midterms.
0:52.1	And folks, let's get real for a second.
0:55.0	America's got a problem.
0:57.0	America?
0:58.0	America has a problem.
1:03.8	And no, not a Beyonce problem.
1:07.4	We love Beyonce.
1:08.7	In fact, we're still waiting for the visuals.
1:13.4	America's got a polling problem.
1:17.1	Our hyper focus on polls has been complicating elections for years.
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