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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 28th, 2012. The media is skewing

the polls edition.

I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and joining me in Slate's DC's studio, our very fragrant studio,

is Slate Chief Political Correspondent and Political Director of CBS News John Dickerson.

Hello, John.

Hello, David.

Have you actually skewed any polls today? No, I gave that up for Lent. Lent. That's not true because Lent isn't for months. For me, it's always Lent. I'm in a constant state of... Deprivation. Self-deprivation, yeah. And joining us in New Haven. Are you in New Haven today, Emily? I am. Slate Senior Ednaer, Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. Hi. So we have three topics this week. We're going to talk about Mitt Romney's troubles in the election. Emily, what are you doing?

Sorry, that was just water. I took the sip of water and the bottle like popped. I'm sorry. That's all right. Don't do that again.

Emily's making noise.

So we're going to talk about three topics today.

We're going to talk about the election and the current state of Romney and the preparations for the debate and what the debate may or may not do for the rest of the campaign.

We will talk about, secondly, about whether the media and the polls are biased against candidate Mitt Romney.

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