Ep 113: Election Polls & the Veneer of Science
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Canon Press
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plotcast, brought to you by Cannon Press. |
| 0:05.0 | Here at Cannon, we are halfway through our annual false sale where almost everything is 30% off. |
| 0:12.0 | Do not miss out. The sail ends this Sunday, October 13th. Yes, God, God, God don't never change. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the Plodcast. |
| 0:36.0 | This is episode 113. |
| 0:38.0 | The Plodcast, you know, the Plodcast, not just any |
| 0:42.0 | podcast. It's this is the Plodcast. the But the election season is starting to heat up. |
| 0:55.6 | The primary campaigning is already underway on the Democratic side. |
| 1:00.1 | And there doesn't look to be any serious primary challenger to President |
| 1:06.2 | President Trump on the on the Republican side. So what should we look for? What should we expect? |
| 1:14.7 | Now keep in mind that we are very obviously dealing with a situation where many, many people have what can only be called Trump |
| 1:27.2 | derangement syndrome. They just can't even. Now now there are people who are opposed to the president who don't have this |
| 1:37.0 | derangement system is syndrome there are people who don't agree with him on policy grounds or they object to his brusque manner or they don't like the |
| 1:47.5 | way he conducts his battles on Twitter or whatever. |
| 1:50.9 | There are all sorts of people who take issue with the president who don't have |
| 1:55.5 | the derangement syndrome. But that said, there are a lot of people who do have the derangement syndrome, |
| 2:02.2 | and it also has to be said that a number of the people with this |
| 2:05.0 | derangement syndrome are working at CNN and MS NBC |
| 2:10.0 | and other places that control the flow of information. |
| 2:15.0 | Now, when we're coming up to this next election, |
| 2:20.0 | I think the thing that I would encourage everybody to remember is that the |
| 2:26.2 | information you are getting from the standard news sources is almost certainly not reliable. |
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