Are You Projecting for a Presidential Election?

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Chris Saliza: Polling's been under attack for what? 10 years now. He says the rise of pollsters has produced so many numbers that our natural human tendency is to look at a number and say, well, this must be true. Saliza: If you see five polls that all seem to suggest Joe Biden's approval rating is moving upward, well then his approval rating is probably moving upward.

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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