269. Question Time: Orban in person, Biden's fragility, and the subtle art of focus groups

The Rest Is Politics

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Just how beneficial are focus groups to political parties? Will Biden's age cost him the US election? And why does Alastair hate vox pops so much? Join Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell as they answer all these questions and more on the latest episode of The Rest Is Politics: Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP UK TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com 🌏 Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/restispolitics It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✅ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.6	that's probably because we've got our own elections going on now, but she's got a
1:12.0	fair point. She wants to know what our own elections going on now but she's got a fair point.
1:13.0	She wants to know what our current take is on the American elections.
1:16.4	Okay well I'd love to hear from you but very quickly just as a bit of an explainer from me.
1:22.0	The opinion polls in America are absolutely astonishing. First thing is that
1:27.1	it's a knife edge and this is a sort of thing that's been happening over the last few
1:31.8	years in American politics. The Republicans, the Democrats,
1:35.2	are getting closer and closer. If you go back in time, go back 50, 60, 70 years. There are often periods
1:41.2	where one party would be have the presidency for many terms and you'd often have a situation in which
1:49.6	They would dominate the Senate or Congress.
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