I was just thinking back on voting during hurricanes. My polling place got moved in 2012 because my polling place was flooded due to Hurricane Sandy.

I ended up voting in an elementary school or something like that in line behind

Louis C. K and his two daughters. I have relatives that work at that elementary school.

Really? I'm not kidding. It's such a small world we're all coming together.

Such a small world of Northeastern media elites. Yeah, wow. Hello and we are three weeks away from Election Day and the race could

hardly be closer according to the polls.

According to 538's averages, every single battleground state is separated by less than a point except for Arizona

where Trump leads by two points. If you are one of the millions of people who looks to the

polls for a sense of who will win the presidential election? Well, you're looking at one big

shruggy emoji and that's we're going to kick things off today which is with the

current state of the race and we've also got a good or bad use of polling for you. It's a nerdy but important one.

This cycle pollsters have increasingly been using respondents past vote data to get a read on the electorate.

In other words, they ask voters who they cast a ballot for

in the last election and wait the sample that they get

to make sure they have enough Trump and Biden voters from 2020. That may sound like a good way to avoid

under counting Trump voters yet again, but it comes with its own perils. And we're going to look at the

political reaction to back to back hurricanes

in the southeast. And we'll also ask what it means that Trump is hitting

significantly more campaign stops than Harris. Here with me to discuss it all is senior

election analyst Nathaniel Raykich. Welcome to the podcast Nathaniel.

Hey Galen! Also here with us is New York Times polling editor Ruth

Agellnick. Ruth, you've been turning out those polls lately.

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