Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamer Keith.

I cover the White House.

One thing you hear us talk about a lot in the run-up to elections is polls.

They're one of the ways we try to get a sense of what voters are thinking and feeling before

they cast ballots.

But how do polls actually work?

Well, our friends at Planet Money wanted to find out.

So before this month's midterms, Jeff Guowe and Nick fountain headed to Marist College

in Pekipsi, New York.

They're polling center partners within PR to do our polling, to find out just how they

do it.

Here's Nick.

The person tasked with training up all the people who do the dialing is Daniella Charter.

And Daniella has agreed not only to let us sit in on a training, but later tonight,

she's going to let us do the dialing for a real poll.

But first, she needs to run us through the script we're going to use.

So why don't we start Jeff?

We need that introduction.

You might first think them.

Hello.

My name is Jeff.

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