On today’s BradCast, I’m in for Brad and Desi today — Angie Coiro, of In Deep with Angie Coiro.
My guests are AMBER McKINNEY, from Law360, discussing the DACA ruling from the 9th circuit and Trump’s latest royal edicts on immigration; and D.D. GUTTENPLAN, editor-at-large at The Nation, and author of the new book The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.
Of course, we have to start off with a lovely story: the Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump’s been caught red-handed, connected directly to the hush money sent to former mistresses.
Then it’s onto the two ongoing big stories: horrific fires in Northern and Southern California, and the elections grinding on in Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. Both the NAACP and a passel of retired generals have weighed in against GOP interference.
A review of the numerous headlines on Trump’s efforts to alter immigration policy by presidential proclamation, and his loss in the 9th Circuit court on his efforts to undercut DACA.
A sprinkling of good news (Ruth Bader Ginsberg already back and work! Thousands in the street protecting Mueller!), then D.D. Guttenplan with his new book on revolutionaries rejuvenating our republic.
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Brad,
Here’s an artifact from the 1960s when exit polls really mean’t something (must have been the superior technology they had back
then, eh?).
Walter Cronkite’s CBS, like the other networks, had a poll system they used to forecast elections and get early “scoops” on the results, when they could, which was often.
Many races were called accurately with well under 50% of the votes cast.
Mis-called races were rare.
In 1980 the tv networks caused an uproar when they called the Reagan race around 5PM PT, causing many voters to stay home, which affected a number of other races.
After public complaints about early predictions in the 1980 election, the networks all started giving their results only AFTER pols closed in a state, so as not to affect the final vote.
I remember this specifically (I was 29 that year and following politics closely).
But back in the 60s, CBS called their own poll system, “Vote Profile Analysis”.
Here’s a New Yorker Archive article about it:
https://www.newyorker.com/magaz...5/victorygraph
Perhaps you know all this, so I apologize if it is old news to you.
But I remember this clearly, and wanted to personally bear witness.