This is a special end-of-summer weather installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Galen Druke speaks with pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and David Byler in an episode composed entirely of examples of “good and bad use of polls.”
They consider why Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy polls differently depending on poll methodology, what we can learn from post-debate polls, whether Nikki Haley used polling well in her debate performance, and more .
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