This is the Mother Jones podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York.

On today's show, Numbers, Numbers, Numbers,

with just two weeks to go, everything you need to know about polling,

from three of the biggest names in the business, an all-star cast.

What elections give us are, you know, the closest thing to a comprehensive read out of the political

mood of a country that we're going to get for really two years.

MS NBC's national political correspondent, Steve Kurnaki.

The map of the country, the political story of the country is just, it's coming into focus that night

and your wife, what's it going to be?

What's it going to be?

538's managing editor mica Cohen.

We show Republicans with a one in six chance of winning the house.

If you're playing Russian roulette that's the chance is that you get killed, right?

And nobody wants to play Russian roulette.

And Huff post-polling editor, Arielle Edwards Levy.

I think people are fascinating, and I love hearing about people's lives and what people think about issues and the way they conceptualize it.

And this sort of provides an opportunity to go out every day and just talk to a really broad swath of America.

What you need to watch in the minute-by-minute horse race on election night.

And who will win?

Just kidding.

spoiler, that's the wrong way to think about polls.

We explain why.

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