Poll Me Twice, Shame On Me
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Poll Me Twice, Shame On Me

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 6, 20261 hr 10 min

Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke — the hosts of Crooked Media's new show Still Counting — join Lovett to talk about the Senate races they find most interesting and Trump doing everything in his power to help Republicans lose the midterms. The crew, who you may remember from the FiveThirtyEight podcast, dives deep into the numbers, breaking down what polling errors we should expect this November, what kind of candidates overperform versus underperform the national average, and the science behind Nate's midterm election forecast model, FLIPR. Subscribe to Still Counting on YouTube or wherever you get your podc...

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Hello everyone, I'm Maldonado, who is a artist who is a bit of a movie star in the first place. I'm a shopkeeper who has a lot of ideas and ideas about how to make a better product for the audience.

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I'm a writer who is a bit of a Shopify Pissed Come, Sivostol. Claire Malone and Galen Drewcore are launching a new podcast with Crooked called Still Counting. It was great to get the gang back together.

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We talked about Trump's politics and what he would be doing if he were actually trying to help Republicans win the Senate. We talked about the races they're watching, including Michigan and the challenges facing Abdul El-Sayed and the broader battle between the left and the center left and how each

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