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American Opinion Of China Has Plummeted

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Are You Getting Bad Use of Polling?

Biden is worried about those numbers because when a politician says all the only poll you can trust is a poll on election day, they don't say that when they're winning usually. He's kind of a weather vane of conventional wisdom and conventional thinking inside the Democratic Party in particular. A lot of people who like working politics actually have all types of misconceptions about the polls. But am I getting bad use of polling? Is that what I'm hearing? It's abad use of polling.

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