Did everybody watch the Oscars last night?

Of course.

I'm a good ABC company employee.

I went home early, but what was the joke involving Malala and the cocaine bear?

It was, it was, they were adjacent jokes.

So he was interviewing people in the audience, including Malala, and then for some reason,

the cocaine bear was calling behind him and like got up and tried to talk to Malala or something.

Did Malala get to interact with cocaine bear?

We couldn't see because the bear was obstructing her.

But she did, she did very diplomatically answer a question about whether Harry Styles bat on Chris Pine.

And what did she say?

She said she's only interested in peace.

Which is like a very politician answer.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

I'm Gaelin Drook.

What if I told you that 2022 was Poland's most accurate election cycle since at least 1998?

Then after all the hand-ranging about polling generally and the sniping about a Republican

or Democratic bias specifically, if you actually crunch the numbers,

polling had its smallest average error of the past 25 years in 2022 tied with the 2004 cycle.

Well, that's what 538's updated pollster rankings bear out.

So today we're going to talk about how we came to that conclusion and what it says about the polling industry.

There are certainly still meaningful questions to ask about the state of polling and we'll ask some of those as well.

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