{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ff1619d19-109b-482c-a4da-bb616cda0e9a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"1: No Takes Given\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/f1619d19-109b-482c-a4da-bb616cda0e9a\"></iframe>","title":"1: No Takes Given","description":"<p>In our inaugural episode released on Iowa's GOP Caucus day, January 15, 2024, host Farrah Bostic (In the Demo Podcast, The Difference Engine) and pal Paul Soldera (Equation Research), set the table for what Cross Tabs is all about: demystifying what polls are and how they work. </p><br><p>Mentioned links:</p><p>Jill Lepore's \"Politics and the New Machine\" [<a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-the-new-machine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker</a>]</p><p>Jill Lepore's \"The Problems Inherent in Political Polling\" [<a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/the-problems-inherent-in-political-polling\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker</a>]</p><p>What Was Nate Silver's Data Revolution? [<a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-was-nate-silvers-data-revolution\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker</a>] </p><p>\"Polls' Representative Samples Often Merit Skepticism\" [<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/polls-representative-samples-often-merit-skepticism-9644248f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal</a>] </p><p>\"How Public Polling Has Changed in the 21st Century\" [<a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2023/04/19/how-public-polling-has-changed-in-the-21st-century/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center</a>] </p><p>All in with Chris Hayes, December 21, 2023 [<a href=\"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdm8j2N9SU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC</a>]</p><p>NY Times/Siena College Poll, December 2023 [<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/19/us/elections/times-siena-national-poll-toplines.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times</a>]</p><p>\"From Which River to Which Sea? College Students Don't Know, Yet They Agree With the Slogan\" [<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-which-river-to-which-sea-anti-israel-protests-college-student-ignorance-a682463b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal</a>]</p><p>YouGov Poll Links(December 2023):</p><p><a href=\"https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/1</a></p><p><a href=\"https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/3</a></p><p><a href=\"https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/2</a></p><p>Suffolk University Iowa Poll (<a href=\"https://www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suffolk/documents/academics/research-at-suffolk/suprc/polls/other-states/2024/1_10_2024_iowa_marginals.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">January 2024</a>)</p><p>\"Ann Selzer Is The Best Pollster In Politics\" [<a href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/selzer/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight</a>]</p><p>AAPOR Analysis of the 2016 Campaign [<a href=\"https://aapor.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AAPOR-2016-Election-Polling-Report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">AAPOR</a>]</p><p>\"Trump lost, but he won millions of new voters. Where did they come from?\" [<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/05/trump-lost-he-won-millions-new-voters-where-did-they-come/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post</a>]</p><p>The Focus Group Podcast [<a href=\"https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast/focus-group/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Bulwark</a>]</p><p><br></p><br /><hr>","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9bb58b9c-31ba-4102-a9dd-57f63d10d8f0/1705356219171-6fb51b47dc5c946b5de6bd2d644b9d0f.jpeg"}