The Surge: Can We Trust The Polls?

It’s the last Friday before the midterms and Democrats have every reason to finally stop panicking and start….merely fretting. This episode originally aired as a Slate Live on YouTube, produced in collaboration with Slate’s politics newsletter The Surge.

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Guests:

Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.

Patrick Reis, Slate’s politics editor

Lizzie O’Leary, What Next: TBD host

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.

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