I've Got Polls But I'm Not A Pollster
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With less than a week until November 3rd, almost 70 million people have already voted in this election as of last night, which is over half the total in 2016.
We talk with Charlotte Swasey, the Vice President of polling at Data for Progress, about how things are looking for Biden, how to read the polls, and what results we may and may not get on Election night.
And in headlines: protests in Philly over the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., California’s record-breaking fire season continues, and Russia implements mask mandate.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 28th, Army Kila Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we are calling on Congress to pass |
| 0:12.4 | a law against celebrity birthday parties on private islands. |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, or at least take down the Twitter account so we don't have to hear about how humbled |
| 0:18.5 | they are to be rich. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.7 | Section 230 is actually all about not being able to post about this specific thing. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm glad that they're finally getting to the bottom of it. |
| 0:34.9 | On today's show, a conversation about polling and the 2020 election was charlotte suesie |
| 0:38.8 | of data for progress than some headlines. |
| 0:41.6 | But first the latest, with just six short days until November 3rd, almost 70 million people |
| 0:46.4 | have already voted in this election as of last night, which is over half the total in 2016. |
| 0:51.9 | Today, President Trump will be making stops in Arizona, a state that he's trying to |
| 0:55.4 | defend this year. |
| 0:56.4 | And Biden will be in Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin later this week. |
| 0:59.9 | That's right. |
| 1:00.9 | And today we're going to talk about everyone's favorite subject and a thing that no one |
| 1:04.1 | has opinions on. |
| 1:05.1 | That is right. |
| 1:06.1 | Polling. |
| 1:07.1 | 16 in the final days of the campaign, there was movement away from Hillary Clinton and |
| 1:12.1 | towards Trump with a final national polling average actually ending up being close to |
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