It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

You know, we don't do much with presidential horse race polls

on this show, right?

They can be so misleading as just a snapshot of the moment.

They can therefore mislead people into thinking the outcome of a race is already baked in

or predetermined way in advance so people don't vote or pay attention.

We also know polls are sometimes embarrassingly wrong,

given the decline of landlines and other factors.

And they can be misleading because, for example,

many presidents or any incumbents, are often seen as unpopular.

That's just our relationship with politicians.

And then they win re-election anyway in so many cases because ultimately what an election is a choice between actual people not just an approval rating of someone in office.

But today we're going to make an exception and lead with some results from the new

Bloomberg Morning Consult poll that came out yesterday because it kind of

changes the narrative of easy assumptions that people have been making lately.

The top line in the story is that of swing states and that it came after five months of mostly consistent

Trump leads as they put it. Another finding that they broke out as a

separate article carries the headline poll shows bipartisan support for taxing the rich.

Now remember Biden made that a centerpiece of his State of the Union address this month?

Remember this part?

Look, I'm a capitalist. If you want to make a million or millions of bucks, that's great.

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