Election 2024: What To Know & What To Watch
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What to know.
What to watch.
How it works.
Plus ~ the "paths to victory" for both candidates on voting day 2024.
All you need to know in one conversation with the co-founder of Real Clear Politics, Tom Bevan. Hear the backstory to the industry leading Real Clear Politics Polling Average and what to watch for (and why it matters) on election night.
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General Presidential Election: Real Clear Politics Polling Average
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to Smarter News. As you know, I have a antithetical relationship with political polling. As I have mentioned, repeatedly on Smarter News. |
| 0:15.0 | I think it's really important to provide quick, concise, nonpartisan information. And polls can be really tricky because I find them to be purely a picture of the past |
| 0:24.8 | and not necessarily something that's particularly helpful looking at the future, although they can be. |
| 0:29.9 | And we're going to leave room for that conversation today because we have a bit of a celebrity |
| 0:33.8 | joining us. |
| 0:34.5 | Because as you know, if there is any poll that I do reference, |
| 0:38.7 | it's constantly and consistently Real Clear Politics. And Tom Bevin is the co-founder of Real Clear |
| 0:45.5 | Politics. And I want him actually to give you the backstory about how they came up with the |
| 0:50.8 | real clear politics polling average, which is what I really rely on. But more than |
| 0:54.6 | anything else, Tom provides great insight into the world of politics. And I've always really |
| 1:00.6 | enjoyed his website. And Tom, the reality is, is that, did you know that real clear politics |
| 1:04.6 | actually was a little bit of an inspiration for smarter news? I did not know that. That's very |
| 1:08.6 | flat. Yes. You know, it really, it really, it always has been. I've |
| 1:12.5 | used it throughout my career because it's a great place to go just to see a variety of different |
| 1:16.6 | articles with different perspectives all in one place. And then, of course, you have the polls, |
| 1:21.2 | which we want to, we definitely want to get to. Here we are. I just want to set the stage. |
| 1:24.7 | We're talking just under two weeks away from Election Day. |
| 1:29.8 | And everyone's looking to tell the future in some way, shape, or form, to get some sort of certainty in an uncertain time. |
| 1:37.6 | But before we get into that, can you just tell me a little bit of the backstory? |
| 1:40.6 | Did you grow up thinking, you know what, political polling is my |
| 1:45.2 | destiny? Not at all. I mean, one of the things about real clear politics is that neither |
| 1:52.6 | the co-founder, John McIntyre nor myself, were involved in politics or journalism professionally. |
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