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FiveThirtyEight Politics

The Poll That Ended Dilbert

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Author Marianne Williamson officially entered the 2024 Democratic presidential primary on Saturday. It’s very unlikely that Williamson will be a serious challenger to President Biden, but with multiple polls suggesting that a majority of Democrats don’t want Biden to run for reelection, the crew asks if he might be vulnerable against the right challenger? They also take a look at the results of recent elections in Chicago, Wisconsin and Virginia to see if they hold any lessons about the national political environment. And they ask whether the poll that Dilbert creator Scott Adams went on a racist rant over was actually a meaningful poll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nate, how's book writing?

0:02.0

I wrote the introductions. That's good. Starting on the first spot

0:07.0

a chapter this week.

0:09.0

So, like, what can you tell us so far? Is it going to be a good book?

0:14.0

It's going to be a really good book.

0:18.0

Like, the introduction alone is Pulitzer worthy.

0:22.0

Thank you, Galen.

0:23.0

Can you write that on the cover of the book?

0:25.0

Galen, the introduction alone is Pulitzer worthy.

0:29.0

You're going to blow up the book.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

0:42.0

I'm Galen Druke.

0:44.0

Can Marianne Williamson harness love to achieve what no one has in the modern primary era?

0:50.0

That is, beat a sitting president for the nomination of his own party?

0:55.0

Over the weekend, Marianne Williamson officially entered the 2024 Democratic primary.

0:59.0

President Biden has yet to announce his re-election campaign,

1:02.0

but every indication is that he plans to do so.

1:06.0

Williamson is very unlikely to be a serious challenger to Biden.

1:09.0

But with a majority of Democrats saying in multiple polls that Biden shouldn't run for re-election,

1:15.0

could he be vulnerable against the right challenger?

1:18.0

Today, we're also going to round up some election news from the past few weeks.

1:22.0

Last week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot failed to make it to the second round of voting in the mayoral election.

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