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The Mark Simone Show

Mark's 10am Monologue.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

As early voting ends in NYC, about 735,000 voters have cast ballots over the last week for mayor. Are the polls unreliable at this point in the race in the city?

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0:00.0

now on the voice of new york it's the mark simone show on seven 10 w o r well it's the day before

0:10.6

election day we'll give you all the latest on the election in just a second uh we'll also get to uh

0:15.6

we'll get to the world series we'll get to the marathon and a whole lot more. It's a tough day today, not just because

0:23.1

of the election, but we're on standard time. No more daylight saving time. It was brutal yesterday.

0:29.1

Dark at five o'clock. It was really strange. And there's all sorts of all these studies here, all kinds of studies, actual medical group studies that daylight saving time takes a toll on your health in all sorts of ways, disrupts your circadian rhythm and all of that.

0:49.2

So it takes a little getting used to.

0:51.1

And that getting dark at five o'clock, all the more reason we got to stop with this daylight savings time.

0:57.5

Now, there is a bill to get rid of daylight, I mean, to get rid of standard time, just stay on daylight saving time all year.

1:02.9

It's the Sunshine Protection Act, and it's been stalled in Congress for years and years and years.

1:10.3

Hopefully it gets passed at some point.

1:12.8

So we'll get to the mayoral race right now.

1:17.2

Let me cough for a second.

1:19.7

There you go.

1:20.8

They're just getting choked up about this mayoral race.

1:23.0

So what do we know?

1:25.5

Nothing.

1:26.4

Absolutely nothing.

1:27.4

You've seen all these polls. They're not good poles. They're pretty cheap, crummy poles, which is what you see in public all the time. There's two kinds of polls. There's the public polls, which are very inexpensive. They're not very good. They're not very reliable. Then there's the highly accurate, very expensive private internal

1:47.3

polls that campaigns do. But in this mayor all race, none of the campaigns have done them.

1:52.4

So we don't have any access to real, real numbers. Now, the other problem with the public polls,

1:56.9

besides the fact, they're cheap. They just do a few hundred people. They don't carefully select

2:00.6

them. Very often, they just rig. They just do a few hundred people. They don't carefully select them.

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