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We try to fix election polling (update)

October 21, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Daniela Charter (0:17)

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Jeff Guo (0:22)

Every time election season comes around, and you see all of those frantic election polls in the news, I think back to the time that I learned just how hard it is to actually do one of those election polls, and why it's gotten so hard.

This was back in 2022 when we, as in We Get Planet Money, had an idea to try and maybe fix polling, and one very generous polling outfit actually let us try out our idea. So we thought we would revisit that story today because we also have an update to how polling is changing, and how our fix is actually still being…

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