It's important to publish outliers because you have a stronger average on the whole when people are unabashed about publishing their findings. Even good pollsters run into, you know, a sample that is too liberally or too conservative from time to time. The fact that that approval number being so low, it represented a dip, a decline in the ABC News, Washington Post trend, which is a decline that other pollsters have not measured.
King Charles III was crowned over the weekend, which led to a lot of polls comparing his popularity to that of other members of the royal family. Long story short, the numbers aren’t great, but in some ways that's beside the point. In this installment of the podcast, the crew asks if polling non-democratic institutions is a good use of polling.
They also look at a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showing both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leading Biden in a very early 2024 matchup. And they talk about the 2024 Senate races that are taking shape. Republican challengers to vulnerable Democratic incumbents are announcing their bids, and a number of them are repeat candidates from the 2022 midterms.
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