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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast.

This is an election year.

Will Donald Trump be re-elected?

What is going on with the Democrats?

And has America gone even more crazy?

We'll be discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week,

because we don't feel you have enough

Americano in your life. I'm joined today by Marcus Roberts, who is head of international politics

for YouGov, and Marcus is here in the office in this age of COVID. So it's great to have you in.

It's great to be back. Thank you. Let's talk about, I think I had you on maybe

a month and a half ago, and you were pretty confident again, with reservations, about the likelihood

of a Biden victory. I think it's fair to say those odds have diminished a little bit, but you still

think Biden retains the clear

advantage. Is that a fair summary? That's a very fair characterization. What has happened

since we last spoke is that Biden's national polling position has been reduced by one or two

points going down from, say, that 10 plus position that he commanded in the high

summer before the conventions to more like a high single digits poll lead. But critically,

he retains an advantage that is significant enough in the battleground states to give him a high

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