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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jonah’s vocal double Chris Stirewalt seizes control of The Remnant today in Dostoyevskian fashion. His guest? CNN’s Harry Enten, who shares Chris’ obsession with polling data. The two explore why polling in 2020 was so inaccurate, the quirks of online polling, and why Republicans who answer polls tend not to represent Republicans at large. They also dig into demographic divisions over vaccine uptake and how vaccine skeptics can be swayed. Tune in for incisive political analysis, but stick around for a considered discussion of which diet cola is America’s finest. Show Notes: - Harry’s author page at CNN - Jeff Bezos casually visits outer space - 2020’s major polling blunders - Inaccurate polling in 1980 and 2012 - How the polls did in 2018 - Max Boot complains about vaccination rates in Republican states - Demographic trends in the vaccine rollout - The vaccine rollout’s partisan divide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	expenses, um,
0:14.4	you get to be the
0:20.9	Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt, I'm the deputy regional Goldberg.
0:32.2	And this is the remnant podcast brought to you by Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:36.4	Yes, my vocal twin, General Goldberg is taking a well-deserved break this week.
0:41.8	And I, Chris Steyerwalt, contributing editor at the dispatch, do other stuff, AEI, etc.,
0:48.2	etc.
0:49.2	is my privilege to be here with you.
0:51.5	And when Jonah asked me, if I would do it, the very first thing that I wanted to talk about
0:56.5	is polling because I'm a huge nerd.
0:59.6	It is true that I am a huge nerd.
1:02.3	And this week, the Association of American Public Research, something, something, released
1:10.9	their sharply self-critical report on polling industries misses in the 2020 election and
1:20.7	that they were the widest miss since 1980 and the piling on continued.
1:26.9	So is forecasting terminally screwed up?
1:33.9	Does public opinion research work in politics anymore?
1:36.9	What are we going to do about this stuff?
1:38.2	And also, which diet cola is the best?
1:41.9	There's only one person who can answer all of those questions and do so with a gratifying
1:47.3	self-deprecating wit and great insight is my good friend, Harry Enten.
1:52.7	Harry is, tell me your title at CNN.
1:55.9	It's whatever the hell you want it to be, Chris.
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