35. Why You Still Can't Believe the Political Polls in 2020
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Why you still can't believe the political polls in 2020
After the Big Miss in 2016, there’s no reason to think the reporting on 2020 polls has improved much.
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| 1:00.2 | just the news podcasts, John Solomon reports and the Pod's Honest Truth with the Christian |
| 1:05.8 | Broadcasting Network's David Brody. |
| 1:08.8 | If you intuitively do not trust a lot of political polling, you're going to love today's podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | We're going to talk about polls and how they are interpreted wrongly or without the proper |
| 1:19.8 | context by the news organization that pays for the poll. |
| 1:24.0 | This is part of the reason why so many people seemed blindsided in 2016 when Trump won. |
| 1:29.4 | I'll have some specific shocking examples including in 2020 of why a lot of what you read in polling |
| 1:35.8 | results is spin more than fact. |
| 1:38.9 | And I'll have citations so you can dig in and read the information for yourself if you like. |
| 1:43.0 | Let's start with something I've been looking at the past couple of years, and that is the |
| 1:46.9 | trend of national polls using Democrat heavy samples, but that not being reported for context by the news |
| 1:55.3 | organizations that write up the results. It matters. For example, to |
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