Mark interviews pollster John McLaughlin.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Mark Simone Show. |
| 0:02.1 | On 710, WOR. |
| 0:05.6 | Well, you know, you see all these public polls, these junky, |
| 0:09.1 | cheap little flimsy polls, but let's talk to the greatest pollster in the world. |
| 0:13.3 | I mean, the real polls are behind the scenes, the ones the candidates use pay a fortune for. |
| 0:18.1 | But here's the best pollster on earth john mclaughlin uh his website |
| 0:22.3 | mclaughlin online dot com but he's been the pollster for presidents prime ministers premiers |
| 0:29.1 | senators all over the world john mclaughlin how you doing i'm doing well because that's a very |
| 0:35.7 | very nice introduction but as long as having survived three presidential campaigns with President Trump, |
| 0:42.0 | where he made his pollster look good, I'll accept it. |
| 0:44.6 | All right. |
| 0:47.1 | Credit goes to him and the other elected officials work for. |
| 0:51.7 | So I just take the polls. |
| 0:54.1 | We'll get to him in a moment let's start with |
| 0:55.6 | the governor's race here in new york next year bruce blakeman alice stephanic to me they're both |
| 1:01.6 | very popular i think blakeman would be the better choice because he's what he does right now is |
| 1:06.2 | he's a governor he's the governor of nassau county. She's a legislator. He's a governor. |
| 1:12.8 | But where does it stand poll-wise? |
| 1:20.1 | Well, exactly. I mean, well, first of all, there's only been one poll that was a serious poll that was put out there. That was the Sienna poll. And the Sienna poll had Congresswoman |
| 1:26.9 | and Sophanic losing by 20 points. And had upside down she was 28 favorable 36 unfaurable they didn't even put bruce in it so even though uh you know kathy hokel is very beatable she's not popular most people when somebody new of the congresswoman's losing to her by 20 points. |
| 1:45.8 | And I worked for Lee Zeldon last time. |
| 1:48.4 | At some point, we hit a wall with 47%, but it was close enough that we gained congressional seats in New York. |
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