Quick Take: The Peril of Polls with The Upshot

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🗓️ 19 January 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Polls drive a lot of political news. To talk about why, how they work, and what might be wrong with them, Nate Cohn, who writes for The Upshot at the New York Times, joins host Tamara Keith and digital political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben. Find them on Twitter @tamarakeithNPR, @titonka, @Nate_Cohn, or at npr.org/politics.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's the NPR politics podcast here with a quick take on polls.
0:08.1	Good evening.
0:09.1	We begin with a brand new NBC News Wall Street Journal poll.
0:11.8	A new CBS News Battleground poll.
0:13.4	According to a new national poll.
0:14.9	The new poll.
0:15.9	A new national poll.
0:16.9	The new CBS News poll out today shows both Hillary Clinton.
0:20.0	We hear so much about polls, especially right now, as the election is getting closer.
0:25.5	And today we're going to talk about what to believe, how they work, and why they might
0:30.6	be very, very wrong.
0:32.5	I'm Tamer Keith, White House correspondent with NPR.
0:34.8	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, Digital Political Reporter.
0:37.5	And we have a special non-NPR guest on the podcast this week from the Upshot.
0:42.2	That's the data-driven reporting team at the New York Times, reporter Nate Cohn.
0:46.9	Welcome.
0:47.9	Thanks for having me.
0:48.9	And so, Nate, polls and data are kind of your specialty at the Upshot.
0:53.0	I want to step back just a tiny bit and ask the most basic possible question.
0:58.2	What is a poll?
0:59.2	I know.
1:00.2	It's like, exactly what I was saying.
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