59. Presidential Polls: Hard to Believe (From the Archives)
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Presidential polls: hard to believe. From the archives Nov. 4, 2020.
We take a trip down short term memory lane to compare some of the latest polling to the embarrassing trends from 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast on JustTheNews.com. |
| 0:16.4 | I hope today you will pre-order my new book that's coming out, slanted, how the news |
| 0:21.1 | media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 0:25.2 | Today, a look at what the latest polls are telling us about who's going to win the next |
| 0:29.6 | presidential election and an eye-opening look at the polling from around the same time |
| 0:34.9 | in the Trump Clinton fight in 2016. |
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| 1:24.4 | Just an important disclaimer, I am not a political reporter, I'm not a polling expert. |
| 1:30.2 | Nothing that I'm about to say in this podcast is to try to pretend that I know what the outcome |
| 1:34.8 | of the election will be or that I'm giving my prediction as an onlooker, we'll save |
| 1:40.4 | that for another time, but maybe that's the point. |
| 1:44.0 | The reporting on the polls and the predictions that we're hearing right now often seem to |
| 1:48.5 | come with no self-reflection on the part of the media. |
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