Polling Week: The Red Wave (1994) w/ Harry Enten

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the run-up to the November election, we’re doing a number of episodes that may help you track and process the current news. This week, it’s Polling Week, looking at some interesting polling-related stories with our friend Harry Enten of CNN.

In 1994, Republicans took back control of congress for the first time in 40 years (!) in what was clearly a “wave” election. We discuss how the polling didn’t anticipate such a big gain, and when you call something a wave vs a swing vs some other term…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	We continue with polling week here on the show as we head towards midterms week and the midterm elections themselves.
0:16.0	Today we revisit 1994, a very notable midterm election for a lot of reasons it is one that produced a huge swing
0:24.2	towards Republicans Republicans had not held the House since 1954 the GOP
0:30.6	picked up 54 House seats, 8 Senate seats, 10 governorships.
0:35.0	It is an election that we've touched on a little bit on this show before.
0:38.0	We did an episode about the Contract With America, for instance.
0:41.0	Today we're going to look at it mostly from a polling
0:43.6	perspective. The polling lessons learned from that election and maybe we'll ask what
0:47.5	constitutes a swing versus a wave versus a tsunami, I don't know what you want
0:51.7	to call it, however else you want to call it.
0:52.6	However else you want to characterize these results here
0:55.6	to join us again for Polling Week.
0:57.5	CNN's Harry Anton.
0:58.6	Hello Harry.
0:59.6	Shalom Joday.
1:01.3	And with us as always, is Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:05.0	Hello Jody.
1:07.0	Hey there.
1:08.0	So Harry, why don't I ask the dumbest question first, which is one of my specialties.
1:12.0	What is the difference between a swing election and a wave
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