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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Claire McCaskill

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Claire McCaskill, a two term U.S. Senator from Missouri and now a political analyst for MSNBC, talks voters the midwest, how Joe Biden should approach the upcoming debates and how Democrats should govern if the win back the White House and the Senate. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody's David Plough.

0:05.0

It's David Plough. Welcome to Campaign HQ.

0:10.0

Few things to talk about before we jump into our conversation with our guests today.

0:14.8

First of all, you know, we're starting to see a lot more polls at the state level in the last

0:19.2

week. You know, I think in general they show a pretty stable race and that seems to be the headline of this race for many many months

0:26.9

is how stable it is

0:28.8

There was a couple of polls that showed Pennsylvania super close a few out this week showing it a little wider,

0:35.0

but you know, within four or five points, which is still too close for comfort.

0:39.2

I think the poll that got the most attention, or at least should have in my view, was a poll of Miami-Dade County by a respected

0:47.0

firm that does a lot of polling of the Hispanic and Latino community, but they looked at Miami-Dade as a county.

0:56.1

And this is one request slash play I have for the news media.

1:00.3

As it relates to the presidential race, you know, national polls tell us nothing because

1:05.6

this is a battle of states. State polls are great, but even better is these deep dive into

1:09.8

swing counties. So in this case, it's Miami-Dade, you know there's counties throughout Central Florida

1:16.5

that'll be swing counties where Biden is overperforming a senior citizens.

1:21.4

Be super interesting to see some of that.

1:23.6

You've got Erie County in Pennsylvania,

1:26.5

North Hampton County in Pennsylvania.

1:29.1

You've got counties, even smaller counties

1:31.4

throughout Wisconsin and Michigan where you had 20 and 30 point swings

1:37.2

between 2012 and 2016.

1:40.0

So I hope more of the news media and you know other sponsoring entities look at big

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