A How-Not-To Manual for Presidents

The Gist

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🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Do you have great aspirations of being the best president the United States has ever known? On The Gist, journalist Robert Strauss says you'd be better off trying to learn from the mistakes of America's duds. That's why Strauss wrote Worst. President. Ever. about James Buchanan, who has the distinct dishonor of setting the national stage for the Civil War. In the Spiel, Mike takes on the myth of the "perfect voter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, September 22, 2016, from Slate, it's the Gisdai Mike Pasca.
0:09.9	Pulse, pulse, the pole of pole, a pole of a pole.
0:14.0	A Polish guy doing a pole of poles.
0:16.6	The best article I'm pulling came out today in the New York Times.
0:20.3	It was by the upshot.
0:21.7	And what they did, they got the raw data, good data.
0:25.3	They thought they interviewed people in Florida and they gave it to five different
0:28.8	pollsters and they said, so who won this pole?
0:31.8	You think this would be fairly straight forward, but it's not.
0:36.1	Here were the different results that five pollsters got from 867 pole responses.
0:42.5	Clinton won by three.
0:44.1	Clinton won by four.
0:45.7	Clinton won by one.
0:47.3	Clinton won by one.
0:48.8	Trump won by one.
0:50.8	What?
0:51.8	How could unbiased pollsters look at the same results from the same number of people?
0:57.0	Clinton said Trump won by a little and the other one said Clinton won by a little and
1:01.4	another one said Clinton won by a little more than a little.
1:04.4	Well, this all has to do with waiting.
1:07.0	What your model is for who's a likely voter.
1:09.4	What your model is for what percentage of the electorate is going to be what race?
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