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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Don’t Obsess Over The Crosstabs!

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Galen and Nate discuss the reasons for Republicans' improvement in the forecast. They also explain why a dramatic shift among independent women in a recent New York Times poll shouldn't be taken at face value — but also shouldn't undercut the poll. Tickets to the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast live show in Washington, DC on October 25th can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4

pivot. And if so, I'm all for it. And two, everyone knows that St. Paddy's Day is the

0:42.5

straightest holiday of all time. Oh, yeah. Is that? No, St. Paddy's Day is more heterosexual

0:48.2

than the average day. It's the only holiday for which it's true. Then the average day

0:51.6

or the average holiday? The average day. The average day. Like what's the word?

0:55.1

The Thanksgiving is gay. It's a normal day. How gay is the replacement level day? It depends

0:59.8

where you live. Where we live. I live in Hell's Kitchen and you live in Chelsea. So we're

1:03.1

maybe not reliable sources for this. Yeah.

1:05.1

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Drug. I'm Nate Silver. And

1:19.5

this is Model Talk. There are 20 days until Election Day. And the 4CAST shows that Democrats

1:27.6

have a 61% chance of keeping the Senate and Republicans have a 75% chance of winning

1:34.5

the House. Those numbers have been moving around a little bit, a little bit more than

1:39.9

usual over the past month. Yeah, there's been a shift where the GOP. There has been.

1:46.7

Just addressed that up front. Why has there been a shift towards Republicans in the 4CAST?

1:53.5

I think both in generic ballot polling and maybe more pronouncedly in state by state

1:59.5

polling. So the generic ballot has moved back to basically a tie. And remember that's

2:03.1

among all polls. If you shift it for likely voters, probably leans GOP at this point. Meanwhile,

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