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How Political Polls Work – Mo News Interview

Mo News

@mosheh / tentwentytwo

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

After the most recent presidential elections, there are ongoing questions about the accuracy of polling and which ones to trust. And whenever I post a story about a poll, I get so many requests to do more on this topic.  Enter Anthony Salvanto, CBS News' director of elections and surveys. He is also the author of “Where Did You Get This Number? A Pollster’s Guide To Making Sense of the World.”  I talked to him about how pollsters get a true picture of the mood and sentiment of the country and why 1,000 people is the right sample size for both a city the size of Chicago and the entire US population. His answer: We need to think about the accuracy of a poll the same way we get a sense for how a bowl of soup or spaghetti sauce tastes. From one spoonful. More on that analogy in our interview, as well as his answers on how the internet has changed polling, his response to critics, which populations are the most difficult to capture and why polls have more power than ever before. – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews

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Hey everyone, it's Mosh, one new year,

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listening to the MO news podcast.

0:35.0

We've been bringing you a number of interviews these past two weeks

0:38.0

about all things space, history, politics.

0:40.0

I have one more view today and I promise on Monday

0:43.0

I will be back with our regular news podcast.

0:46.0

With that said, I want to dive into a topic today.

0:49.0

I hear from a lot of you about polling.

0:51.0

Can we trust the polls?

0:53.0

Why do you post these polls all the time?

0:55.0

Have things been fixed as the presidential elections?

0:58.0

And so with all these questions about the accuracy of the polls,

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which ones to trust, et cetera, et cetera,

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I have brought on one of the leading polling experts,

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leading pollsters in the country.

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