How Election Polling Works and Doesn't Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Election polling had a pretty good rep until 2016. But it turns out they weren't far off even then. It's really the media driving the narrative. Learn all about how election polling works today.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:54.5	She's in her office.
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1:00.1	It's like the COVID special.
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1:04.9	And this was, this has been one I've been wanting to do since 2016.
1:11.7	And it seems like the fire kind of went down on it and now it's the fire is back up again
1:18.8	in an election season.
1:21.4	No better time than to talk election polling in this weird sort of black magic, which
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