Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

Here's the podcast we get maybe a thousand emails a week with questions for the show.

And these days, a lot of them are about polls.

We know the polls have tightened this last week, and they always do in the closing days

of a campaign because we are a closely divided country.

And as a vote near, those divisions become even clearer.

So a reminder that the outcome depends on who turns out to vote, not what people tell

to vote for.

That said, we wanted to get a real poster in here with us to give some insight on the

good and the bad of polls and how they work.

I'm Sam Sanders, Campaign reporter.

I'm Danielle Kurtz, Living Political Reporter.

I'm Dominic Amantiner, Political Editor.

And we have a special guest with us from the Pew Research Center, Courtney Kennedy, Director

of Survey Research there.

Hi Courtney.

Hi.

Thanks for being here today.

Thanks, how are you Sam?

I'm good.

We're going to have you talk more about the thing you talk about all the time.

Post.

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