The Mark Simone Show.

Mr. New York. 710 W.O.R. Well, hey, when it comes to polls, you got all those public polls, the college polls, the media polls, they're pretty cheap and flimsy. Metrics stink in them. They're not done very well. They're not very accurate. Candidates don't look at them or use them. Candidates use the real serious pollsters, the deadly accurate ones.

The biggest and best of them is John McLaughlin, who's worked for presidents, senators, prime ministers, all over the world.

Actually, his website is McLaughlin Online.com.

And he's with us right now.

John McLaughlin, how you doing?

It's a pleasure to be here.

Hey, first, let's get to Long Island.

What happened there?

We love Mazi Pilip, but she was not the best campaigner candidate, the speaking.

It was not up to polished old Tom Swazzi's level.

Well, full disclosure, I mean, you give me great praise, but, you know, none of us are

perfect.

And it's like I was polling from Ozzie.

Oh, oh, okay.

I would throw out a question.

No, no.

No, I'll give you the honest truth.

It looked like we were doing well.

We were closing ground.

And because really the Democrats are out spending us like seven to one, like three, four weeks out.

And Swazi, to his credit, he's a formidable opponent.

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