244,000 people seeking unemployment insurance last week. as americans struggle with the rising costs of everyday goods. new details about former president trump allegedly trying to call a witness involved in the january 6th committee s investigation. we begin this morning with what appears to be a stark difference between the president of the united states and israel over how to deal with iran. during a joint news conference with israeli s prime minister in jerusalem, president biden defended his efforts to restart an international agreement aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security to both israel and the united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and we ll continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. but the israeli leader said diplomacy will not work and that the international community
american polls and the way that poll results are reported by the news media. waterss recorded at street bookstore in exeter, new hampshire in 2008 and is about one hour and 10 minutes. dr. moore: i want to turn to essentially the theme of the book. the subtitle says, an insider reveals the truth about the polls. what is the truth behind the polls? a major objection to the way that polls operate is that they don t tell the truth about the electric and they don t tell the truth about the public. that doesn t mean they don t tell the truth all the time. i think we find a lot of very interesting information from polls. particularly when the polls address what people know about their own experiences and what people genuinely know. for example, we know, based upon early gallup polls that a majority of people in the 1930 s approved of topless bathing suits for men. we know that a majority of women and a majority of men opposed having women go to work in business and industry if th
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the electorate, and they don t tell the truth about the public. that doesn t mean they don t tell the truth all the time. i think we find a lot of very interesting information from polls. particularly when the polls address what people know about their own experiences and what people genuinely know. example, we know, based upon arly gallup polls that majority of people in the 1930 s approved of top list topless bathing suits for men. we know that a majority of women and a majority of men opposed having women go to work in business and industry if their husbands could afford to support them. those kinds of questions, we could not even asked today ask today. whether or not women should be allowed to work? tremendousu what a change there has been in american history. polls can show you information about the culture. isre i object to the polls where they deliberately mislead us, with respect to elections, reelection polling, and respect to public policy. when it comes to publ
role in a modern democracy. morris argues that the larger purpose of political polls is to improved democracy, not just predict persuasively, argued and deeply research strength numbers is an essential guide to. understanding and embracing one of the most important, overlooked democratic institute actions in the united states. and the author is a data journalist for the economist, where he writes about american and elections based here in washington, dc and moderating this evening. we re lucky have jamelle bouie, a columnist, the new york times and political for cbs news. bouie covers campaigns, elections national affairs and culture. previously, the chief political correspondent, slate magazine and a staff writer at the daily beast and held at the american prospect, the nation magazine. please me in giving a very warm puppy to elliott morris and jamelle bouie, thank you both. hello. thank is just on. yeah, i think it is sounds on the air. okay, great. thank you for coming. h