Is Scott Adams a Nut Job or a Racist?

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There are plenty of instances in which their results are meaningfully different from other pollsters. The claim that they were right about 2016, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, et cetera, is one of those things that you hear in the after action report from a lot of political people. I'd like to see more mainstream polling organizations ask carefully constructed questions about race. They did not say here is a definitive look at how the races regard one another in the United States.

Newspapers across the country pulled the long-running comic “Dilbert” after its creator uploaded a racist tirade about Rasmussen poll results. Journalist Chris Cillizza explains how providing the fodder for controversy is Rasmussen’s whole deal.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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