Do you ever get confused for Nate Silver?

Like do people ever email your time to dress and say like I don't know why your model says like this but

I almost never get

feedback

through like professional channels that

Suppose that I'm Nate Silver. I do if I like meet someone for the first time and I like explain what my job is

And that my name is Nate like there is some there's often an effort to either figure out which one I am or

Also people just know who Nate Silver is because he's more famous than I am so like that's I feel like no

He's left the times. That's not me. You know that sort of thing definitely happens, but

It's that I think it becomes less common over time on behalf of 538. I'm sorry for the confusion

And I'm glad to hear that it's decreased

Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast. I'm Galen Drake for folks who are interested in what Americans think about the state of our country and its politics

We got lots of new data from the New York Times and Sienna College last week

They released their first round of midterms polling covering a wide range of questions from views on Biden and Trump

to the state of the economy and our democracy

The answer to just about all of those questions is

Not great Americans are pretty pessimistic and they're pessimistic about both the direction of the country and the people leading both parties

For regular listeners or really perhaps any American that might not be surprising

But beyond the pessimism we also learned how Americans want things to be different from some clues for future elections to how the parties

Coalitions could continue to evolve and here with us to unpack all of that is Nate Cone the chief political analyst at the New York Times who heads up the Times

Sienna poll welcome back to the podcast neat. Thank you. It's good to be that also here with us is 538 politics editor sir

Frostensen. Hey Sarah. Hey, oh, so before we dive in I do want to mention a little housekeeping at the top

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