Is The Media Tougher On Biden Than Trump?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Politics, News

4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Nate Silver and Galen Druke open the mailbag and answer listener questions, including how much it would cost to "fix polling" and why Vice President Harris is polling less favorably than President Biden. They also ask whether a sentiment analysis suggesting that the press is more negative on Biden than it was on President Trump is a "good or bad use of data." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Taste is kind of the most emotionally disappointing experiences of COVID.
0:05.7	Like there are two distractions when you can't do anything,
0:08.1	TV and food, and I had the TV, but I didn't have the food and that sucked.
0:14.1	Well...
0:21.8	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Gaelin Drouk.
0:26.4	I'm Nate Silver.
0:27.5	And this is a mailbag, going post-all.
0:33.6	So today, as you mentioned, Nate, we're going to open the mailbag and answer some listener questions.
0:40.8	We love answering listener questions, but part of the reason we're doing a mailbag episode today
0:45.2	is because I didn't have that much time to prep.
0:48.3	As Chad mentioned on Monday, I was sick.
0:50.8	I actually had COVID, so thanks Chad for filling in for me.
0:55.4	It's been interesting.
0:57.6	Actually getting COVID after two years of rewiring our society because of it,
1:02.2	it's almost like meeting some kind of infamous celebrity or something.
1:05.2	I had a breakthrough back in the late summer.
1:08.0	How you did?
1:08.9	Yeah.
1:09.9	I think people should destigmatize getting COVID,
1:13.4	because probably more than the country,
1:15.6	not basically the official number of diagnosed cases,
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