1: No Takes Given

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. Mentioned links: Jill Lepore's "Politics and the New Machine" [The New Yorker] Jill Lepore's "The Problems Inherent in Political Polling" [The New Yorker] What Was Nate Silver's Data Revolution? [The New Yorker] "Polls' Representative Samples Often Merit Skepticism" [Wall Street Journal] "How Public Polling Has Changed in the 21st Century" [Pew Research Center] All in with Chris Hayes, December 21, 2023 [MSNBC] NY Times/Siena College Poll, December 2023 [New York Times] "From Which River to Which Sea? College Students Don't Know, Yet They Agree With the Slogan" [Wall Street Journal] YouGov Poll Links(December 2023): https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/1 https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/3 https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/edc6d/2 Suffolk University Iowa Poll (January 2024) "Ann Selzer Is The Best Pollster In Politics" [FiveThirtyEight] AAPOR Analysis of the 2016 Campaign [AAPOR] "Trump lost, but he won millions of new voters. Where did they come from?" [Washington Post] The Focus Group Podcast [The Bulwark]