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The Gist

Happy Fifteen Years, Political Gabfest

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, don't trust the polls. And, today's installment of Remembrances of Things Trump: Trump loves the Great Lake. In the interview, Mike helps Slate celebrate a milestone. Fifteen years ago this week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz recorded their first podcast together, and the Political Gabfest was born. Since 2005, the trio has roundtabled weekly about politicians, scandals, and countless court cases with millions of listeners joining them along the way. It's a podcast series that Stephen Colbert says "everybody should listen to." One of the first-published podcasts to date, Slate's Political Gabfest set the stage for news, culture, and politics shows everywhere to come over the years. In the spiel, proof through accusation. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Dantor Manhattan clam chowder, much worse words than that.

0:39.9

It's Friday, December 11th, 2020, from slated to just I might pesca. I have an interesting

0:48.5

relationship with the polls these days. Well, maybe not that interesting. It's the same

0:53.0

relationship as I have with my Uncle Angelo, no relationship because he's dead to me.

0:57.1

And I say that because he's actually dead. Now, I'm just kidding. I mean, he is dead,

1:02.2

but polls to me are more like my Uncle Angelo when he was alive. Possibly generally true,

1:07.6

but you can't trust him with real precision. Like did he really help Don Newcomin Roy

1:11.4

Campanella fix a flat or was he just listening to the game on the radio that day?

1:15.9

So take Georgia. Pulse say it's close, how close, how accurate are the polls? It doesn't

1:21.0

matter. They're going to vote then. Well, no, but I was looking at a poll today that I

1:24.8

thought was really fascinating because it goes exactly to the heart of one of my big takeaways,

1:29.7

one of my big feces, you know, pretty fancy word, but I am college educated feces about

1:36.7

the 2020 election and politics today in America. Here is the poll, which specific elected

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