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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Who's Really Losing the Election?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Benjamin Wallace-Wells and Evan Osnos join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how pundits have gone wrong.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

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politics. It's Thursday, February 11th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

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Enough about the candidates. What about the pundits? In November, Nate Silver wrote an article to his colleagues called Dear Media, Stop Freaking

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Out about Donald Trump's Polls. Here's Silver on his podcast after Trump's triumph in

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New Hampshire this week.

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Now, that's not to be kind of in denial of the changed facts. I mean, we definitely are way more bullish on,

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way more bullish on Trump's chances than we were a few months ago, even a few weeks ago.

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But still, people are kind of pre-writing stories based on the presumption now that Trump will win.

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If you were someone who said, yeah, maybe he can do okay in Iowa and New Hampshire,

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but we'll have trouble sustaining momentum after that, and then people throw all types of banana peels in his way,

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