Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the data and reality of presidential polls and how we are using them wrong with economist Dr. Stephen Popick, as we talk data vs vibes and fact vs rhetoric as the election approaches.
All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.
00: Intro/ Economics on an election year, how housing policy affects politics
10:01 Using presidential polls wrong, & what to watch for
18:20 Is Harris underperforming? Debating a close election
24:30 Enthusiasm gap? The data of bipartisan apathy.
26:26 Trump's low ceiling/high floor and how his base gives him an advantage, swing states, rust belt vs sun belt, blue wall vs red south
32:30 What to make of "voter purges" headlines in election years
37:40 An Economist take on presidential promises to "fix" the economy and how policy promises are usually more bad than good
41:10 The importance of advisors to a president, and judging the folks a candidate surrounds themselves with in determining our votes
43:20 Politics of economic coverage during Christmas/economic literacy problem of the American public
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