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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, February 16th,

2021 I am John Pudhortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me after a one-day gap,

senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine, hi John, no gap, executive editor Abe Greenwald,

hi John, and there can't be a gap because he's the only one who knows how to tape this thing,

associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah, hi John,

so the only thing comes to my mind to start is that there's a pull out from Siena,

I know we hate polls, we don't trust polls, I trust polls when the margins are large and when

they're not doing a head-to-head pick of something, I think they can still, what they can tell you is

how, you know, very accurately how an electric close election is going to come out, but they can

tell you other things and so there is a Siena poll about a monthly poll that comes out from Siena,

which is at New York State College, about the Andrew Cuomo's general approval rating in relation

to the coronavirus and despite the controversy and horror of the revelations that he and his

administration lied about nursing home deaths and misallocated them deliberately, it would appear,

he still lit around 62% approval, 61% approval down from 63% approval last month,

getting positive grades for communicating with New Yorkers, 67 to 33, providing accurate information,

61 to 36, he gets mixed grades for managing the vaccine roll out 48 to 49 and implementing the

right plans for reopening New York, but they do give him a negative grade 39 to 55, I'm making

public all data about COVID deaths of nursing home patients, so what this tells you is the public is

able to look at the Cuomo lie, say it's bad and yet it has absolutely no effect on his public

opinion rating, so let's, I want to give you guys a thought experiment, we keep talking about negative

polarization. What about positive polarization in this sense, which is that people make up their

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