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Advisory Opinions

Smothered and Covered

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

David and Sarah discuss the latest polls looking at the 2020 election, the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss a New York gun rights case, and talk with Steven Lehotsky, of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about how businesses are dealing with liability as they make plans to reopen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. We have an action-packed pod today.

0:25.0

We're going to begin with polling, talking about where does Joe Biden stand in the race against Donald Trump.

0:31.0

We're going to talk about, well, from polling, we're going to go to my legal PTSD, how a Supreme Court case about gun rights has triggered me, Sarah.

0:45.0

We're such a snowflake.

0:48.0

I'm melting right now.

0:51.0

Then I'm literally shaking. I'm literally shaking.

0:55.0

Then we're going to go to a fascinating discussion with, yes, Sarah knows everybody, Chamber of Commerce, Council, Litigation Council, Steve Lahatsky about how it's not necessarily opening the economy is not necessarily as easy as saying open sesame or open economy because there are liability issues around coronavirus that might have to be dealt with legislatively, really interesting conversation.

1:20.0

Then we're going to wind up with a brief talk about where do the culture wars go from here.

1:26.0

But let's start with polling, Sarah.

1:29.0

The state of the 2020 race is dot dot dot.

1:34.0

Last week was so interesting because we'd had sort of a gap in polling or maybe the better way to put it is all of the polling had really been about coronavirus, Trump approval rating, how do you think he's handling the coronavirus, how's your governor handling the coronavirus.

1:48.0

And then all of a sudden in like a 48 hour period last week, we got a whole bunch of 2020 polling.

1:54.0

And so I was just having a good old time going through cross tabs and I have some things to share.

2:03.0

But first let's just say how many people in America can say the sentence ahead a good old time going through cross tabs.

2:12.0

All of my students, I will tell you that.

2:15.0

Oh, good.

2:16.0

Okay.

2:17.0

I have a text chain with my students where I like send them things that they're like, aren't we done with class? Do we have to keep reading those stuff?

2:24.0

Yes, forever.

2:26.0

So let's dig into some of the swing states because I think we have beaten it into our listeners enough that national polling is pretty pointless because we don't have a national election.

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