Is the Polling Wrong?

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss potential polling inaccuracy, Brett Favre and the larger scandal of states misusing federal welfare funding, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s take on Italy’s neo-fascist future Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Nate Cohen for The New York Times: “Yes, The Polling Warning Signs Are Flashing Again” Anna Wolfe and Mississippi Today’s coverage of the Mississippi welfare scandal. Annie Lowry for The Atlantic: “The Time Tax” Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Here are this week’s chatters: John: Adrienne LaFrance for The Atlantic: “What It's Like to Fly Into the Eye of a Hurricane” Emily: Roya Hakakian for The Atlantic: “The Bonfire of the Headscarves” David: The Guardian, YouTube: “Michael Sheen Gives Rousing Speech for Wales Football Team on A League of Their Own” Listener chatter from Meredith Francis: Paul Fairie’s Twitter thread of "A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz." For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political Gavvest.
0:07.0	September 29th, 2022, it's the IS the polling wrong edition.
0:21.4	I am David Plott of CityCast here in Washington, D.C. joined by John Dickerson of CBS'
0:28.2	Prime Time with John Dickerson from New York City, Hello John Dickerson.
0:32.2	Hello David.
0:33.2	And from New Haven, Connecticut, Emily Baszlan of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University
0:38.0	Law School, Hello Emily.
0:39.5	Hello.
0:40.5	This week on the Gavvest is the midterm polling going to be catastrophically wrong for Democrats
0:45.3	the way it was in 2016 and 2020.
0:49.1	Then we will puzzle over the almost incomprehensibly grotesque Mississippi welfare scandal.
0:55.5	And then we'll talk about the victory of Neo-Fascist, Georgia Maloney and Italy's election
1:00.4	with scholar Ruth Ben Giat.
1:03.8	Plus of course we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:05.3	And before we get to any of that, we have a huge announcement.
1:08.4	We're going to be live in Atlanta on Wednesday, November 2nd.
1:12.1	Atlanta Georgia.
1:13.1	Atlanta.
1:14.1	It's the P.C.
1:15.1	Atlanta.
1:16.1	It's the P.C.
1:17.1	Atlanta.
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