The Pollsters

Manafort
Why it would it—or wouldn’t it—be a big deal for a foreign intelligence operation to have internal polling data from a campaign?
Shutdown
Voters blame Trump, GOP for shutdown (POLITICO/Morning Consult)
Trump Has Lost Ground In The Shutdown Blame Game (FiveThirtyEight)
Congressional Priorities
Government Gets an Upgrade (Navigator)
Americans' Long List for Congress Spans Education to Income (Gallup)
2020
Elizabeth Warren wins the first Daily Kos 2020 Presidential Straw Poll (Daily Kos)
Daily Kos Democratic Straw Poll, inaugural edition!
American Ideology by Gallup
U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains
Americans Continue to Embrace Political Independence
#MeToo
Celebrity Soapbox on #MeToo Issues Creates Positive Change, Plurality Says (Morning Consult)
Doggos
Republicans Like Dogs More Than Democrats (YouGov/The Economist)
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Show Notes

Manafort

Why it would it—or wouldn’t it—be a big deal for a foreign intelligence operation to have internal polling data from a campaign?

Shutdown

Voters blame Trump, GOP for shutdown (POLITICO/Morning Consult)

Trump Has Lost Ground In The Shutdown Blame Game (FiveThirtyEight)

Congressional Priorities

Government Gets an Upgrade (Navigator)

Americans' Long List for Congress Spans Education to Income (Gallup)

2020

Elizabeth Warren wins the first Daily Kos 2020 Presidential Straw Poll (Daily Kos)

Daily Kos Democratic Straw Poll, inaugural edition!

American Ideology by Gallup

U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains

Americans Continue to Embrace Political Independence

#MeToo

Celebrity Soapbox on #MeToo Issues Creates Positive Change, Plurality Says (Morning Consult)

Doggos

Republicans Like Dogs More Than Democrats (YouGov/The Economist)

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Creators & Guests

Host
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Pollster/founder: @echeloninsights. On-air: @cnn. Writer: @nytopinion, The Selfie Vote. Florida woman in DC. Go Gators.
Host
Margie Omero
Margie Omero is a Principal at the Democratic polling firm GBAO with over 25 years of experience providing strategic advice and qualitative and quantitative research to candidates, organizations, and brands.

What is The Pollsters?

Politics. Policy. Polling. Pop Culture.

Explore what America's thinking with two of the country's leading pollsters-the bipartisan team of Democrat Margie Omero and Republican Kristen Soltis Anderson. In this weekly podcast we take a fresh, friendly look at the numbers driving the week's biggest stories in news, politics, tech, entertainment and pop culture. Along with the occasional interview with pollsters, journalists, and other industry leaders, we'll lift the hood on the numbers revealing the hidden secrets of the public's mind.