Between the Scenes - Why Polls Are Bad for Elections
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.5 | Do I have predictions for the midterms? |
| 0:06.5 | I hate predicting things. |
| 0:08.3 | I'll not be honest with you. |
| 0:09.5 | I think a lot of like America's predicting, I think, |
| 0:13.0 | hurts its elections because a lot of it seems like a foregone conclusion |
| 0:17.2 | because of the predictions. |
| 0:18.8 | So the prediction was that Hillary would win. |
| 0:20.7 | So I think a lot of people were like, |
| 0:22.0 | yeah, what's the point? |
| 0:23.6 | You know, a lot of like, |
| 0:24.6 | I feel like elections should have nothing, |
| 0:26.3 | there should never be a prediction. |
| 0:27.7 | I don't think there should be polls to be honest. |
| 0:29.8 | I think the polls should be something that is only accessible to campaigns |
| 0:33.2 | so that they can run what they're doing. |
| 0:35.1 | But I don't think we should know who's up and who's down. |
| 0:38.0 | Why does that affect your votes? |
| 0:39.6 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 0:40.2 | Why are you voting because someone is winning or losing? |
| 0:42.0 | That's a weird, you should be voting because you believe |
| 0:44.3 | in somebody's platform or not as opposed to, |
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