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We’ve been hanging on polls for months, but we realized that we didn’t know how polls work. So we got Josh Katz of the New York Times Upshot to explain it to us. Come walk through the process of polling with someone who truly understands how this numerical sausage gets made! This involves landlines, disembodied hands answering phones in haunted houses, and computer models that run millions of simulated elections every few hours. Maureen asks a lot of questions about the movie Wargames. Dan loses his grip on reality. And there is organ music from Josh Kantor, the official organist of the Boston Red Sox.

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Follow Josh Katz’s election forecasts at The Upshot

Pre-order Josh’s new book, Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide, here

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Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

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