Politics Podcast: Silly Polling Season Begins

Among the most politically attuned, last week saw the kind of angst and accusations of bias around polls that would normally be expected in the final two months of a campaign, not the end. year and two months of campaign.

The focus was mainly on the general election polls: whether Wall Street Journal The poll can be trusted showing former President Donald Trump and President Biden tied. What to do with a CNN poll showing Nikki Haley as the only Republican candidate with an advantage over Biden that falls outside the margin of error. How to understand New York Times data suggesting Biden is losing support among voters of color.

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen speaks with Carlos Odio of Equis Research and Terrance Woodbury of HIT Strategies to discuss which recent data is really worth paying attention to and which is loud and furious.

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