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Category: News & Politics

According to astrology mars is squaring neptune which means that from energy vampires to draining schedules you need to root out what's zapping your spirit the election is basically one big energy vampire if you think about [music] it hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast i'm gayen dro and folks... Read more

Category: News & Politics

We already had this conversation once in the cycle because we had actually the first presidential debate in june but how much might we expect these kinds of affairs to shape the election well we've already had maybe the most consequential presidential debate in history probably i guess you'd have to... Read more

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We got a podcast full of singers yeah what part do you sing i'm a first tener usually first alto okay well we can create our own ac capella group right here on the 538 podcast we should come up with a song to do 525,600 voters okay we're not talking about love we're talking about data seasons of data... Read more

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Jeffrey do you think that this jobs report or any other economic data that is going to come out between now and election day is going to matter uh to who ends up winning in november i think it could matter very narrowly at the margins i think the the okay so the whole idea of like the jobs report being... Read more

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So you know normally i try to you know drink a little bit of coffee or something before these late night podcasts maybe a diet coke but uh i honestly um i don't think i need it you're just on a natural high i don't think i need it that's that you espresso that's that me espresso that debate was me espresso... Read more

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But it does seem like there is a lot more volatility or malleability in americans perceptions of harris and she didn't do quite as much to maybe define herself as the moderate on the economy or immigration or things where she might have been seen as vulnerable like she addressed the immigration portion... Read more

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So abortion was mentioned a total of one time during the first debate and i think that was used as evidence that biden was incapable of sort of pivoting the conversation towards democrats strengths whereas this time around it was mentioned eight times either abortion or reproductive care and i think... Read more

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Ruth nathaniel walked us through literally how we got here but this was not pre-ordained i mean had there not been a debate we could still be here in september with biden um at the top of the ticket the party didn't need to rally around harris the way it did and also it probably wasn't written in the... Read more

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Well yeah it's also interesting because while she is improving notably with these groups she's in many cases still shy of where biden was in 2020 with these groups whether it's young voters or latino voters and also when you look at some of the states where she's turned around democrats lot like it... Read more

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And we see that harris has an advantage even a greater advantage than biden did on things like abortion protecting democracy healthcare and one one area where we've seen sort of real tightening is on crime and safety it seems like she's improved notably over where biden was compared to trump is that... Read more

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An underrated aspect of this year's elections the british election was on july 4th and the american election is on november 5th aka guy fox day that's true oh yeah y fireworks for britain in america and then fireworks for america in britain okay well somebody just described our last round of polling... Read more

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 tim miller, your thoughts. well,  nicole, i mean, in some ways, obviously,   this is a shock. it's an earthquake. dick cheney,  darth vader, uh, voting for the democrats, uh,   should be a wake up call to everybody. um,  that's really not that much of a surprise,   especially when you consider the... Read more

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So another thing that's going to happen over the next two months is a lot of talk about polling error ruth what sources of error in this election keep you up at night oo all sources of error keep me up at night um but i will no right yeah i have small kids i'm never sleeping um there are three things... Read more

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Washington bureau chief political director rick klein he's also at the debate site in philadelphia rick the poll showed this race is so close good morning george yeah close race by some measures gotten even closer in recent days the latest 538 polling average has kamla harris up by less than three percentage... Read more

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538 politics podcast host gayen dro for more on this gayen i'm so happy to have you here so uh look we know the 538 national polling average shows vice president kl harris with this slight lead over trump is that enough to rattle the trump campaign at all yeah i don't think either campaign can be confident... Read more

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We have seen a trend in the cycle i mean it was more exacerbated under biden but i think we're still seeing it with harris is that there's softness amongst young voters and democrats seem to be holding up decently well with older voters and you know if we're thinking about oh what do people remember... Read more

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So britney i know that we have made uh you answering this question difficult by asking you to jump right on this podcast with us as soon as the debate ended but what are you hearing in the spin room about how the surrogates are trying to spin the performances of the two candidates well i mean i just... Read more

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We have harris just ahead in the polls right now because after the convention the party is usually on a little bit of a sugar high we have that more like 50/50 for election day so yeah harris would love to the if we could have a snap election in the us harris would call one right now right she has momentum... Read more

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Okay uh hello there crazy news i did not expect this this is some really crazy stuff so let's get into it so this is actually a study done by university of houston on the polling status of the 2024 election between kamla harris and donald trump let's dig in okay so look i'm going to summarize this whole... Read more