CNN's John Sutter asks, if you could create a poll, what would you want to ask Americans? It could be serious, professional, fun, or just curious. The unofficial numbers are probably much higher in places like India. When one person dies, we have like a murdered trial and it gets on court TV and we discuss it for months. And here seven million people have died. That seems like consequential.
Galen Druke and Nate Silver open up the mailbag and answer listener questions about politics and polling. They cover American skepticism of artificial intelligence — according to one poll, only 9 percent of Americans say it will do more good than harm to society — and consider what to make of former president Donald Trump’s gains on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in early Republican presidential primary polling.