Susan elliott morris, poster and data journalist, your new book is entitled, strength in numbers how polls work and why we need them. This title reflects your philosophy about polls. Why do you think polls really play an important part in our society . Elliott that is the question of the book. When i set out to write it, i started from a statistical perspective. I am a reporter, not a pollster. When you consider a lot of polling information, you started to notice that they get things wrong frequently. The average in polls is what we like to focus on when forecasting elections but more importantly is what pollsters ask of people, what they want from the government and what leaders to Pay Attention to, the problems they want them to solve. So we have a plethora of clinical polling information before elections and they sometimes get things wrong but the issue of polls is accurate. I wanted to ask what we can make of the issue polling data, not to forecast an election but to increase repre
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cox supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television service pviders, giving you a front row seat democracy. iowa republican governor talks about economic policies during a conversation hosted by the cato institute in washington dc. she discusses school choice in education funding, tax cuts and business investments for the state. this is about an hour. i m disoriented. welcome to the cato institute. thanks to those of you tuning and online. my name is gene healy, senior vice president for policy. i will do the introductions and moderating. with a special focus on fiscal responsibility, tax policy and educational freedom. we are very pleased to have with us today governor kim reynolds of iowa, she is iowa was 43rd governor, serving that role since of since 2017. among governor reynolds accomplishments in office, she has delivered the largest tax cuts in state history. it happened if i have that rate, and abolition of iowa s inheritance check tax
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cox supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. interested in hearing your comments about the process of it all of the annual spending bill procedure that congress goes through. thoughts on the fiscal responsibility of it all. go ahead and start calling. from politico, senate clears a spending bill averting government shutdown. it gives more time to flesh out $1.7 trillion in a year and spending package that congress is racing to clear before the holiday. negotiators involved however are keeping spending details under wraps as not to endanger support for the bill. the majority leader seeming pretty positive, we have not had a single government shutdown during the entire 117 congress and we are not starting now. today s resolution will keep the government open long enough to give our appropriators a chance to finish their work on a year-long funding backend. this is about taking a very simple a