Slate: The Media Is Skewing the Polls Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Has Romney imploded? Is the media gunning for Obama? Is the Senate up for grabs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 28th, 2012. The Media is skewing
0:53.6	the polls edition.
0:55.6	I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and joining me in Slate's DC's studio, our very fragrant studio,
1:03.2	is Slate Chief Political Correspondent and Political Director of CBS News John Dickerson.
1:07.3	Hello, John.
1:07.9	Hello, David.
1:08.8	Have you actually skewed any polls today?
1:12.2	No, I gave that up for Lent.
1:15.4	Lent.
1:16.0	That's not true because Lent isn't for months.
1:18.8	For me, it's always Lent.
1:20.1	I'm in a constant state of...
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