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Speaker 2: an election, got some complaints. People are like, okay, lose
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Speaker 2: is the political season and many people. We talked to
Speaker 2: Henrietta Treys and Terry Hayes making very clear there is
Speaker 2: an election impact. We'll see what that is in the
Speaker 2: coming days. And Frankly out into Q one of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five today and Selza joined us on polling. But
Speaker 2: first Bob Woodward out with his new book War. He's
Speaker 2: had done many interviews. I didn't spend that much time
Speaker 2: on the book. We talked to Bob Woodward about America
Speaker 2: in the politics of the present moment. Here Bob Woodward
Speaker 2: on President Trump.
Speaker 3: That speculation, I don't know. What is very interesting is
Speaker 3: to listen to Trump in the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: He's in a very sour mood. And I think it
Speaker 3: was yesterday or the day before he said, then this
Speaker 3: is the man who wants to be president again. He's
Speaker 3: very dark, very profane comments, and he said, this is
Speaker 3: a crooked country. Now imagine somebody, this is not a
Speaker 3: crooked country. It may become one if he becomes president.
Speaker 2: Bob Woodward an entire generation changing and shifting on journalism
Speaker 2: in the early nineteen seventies because of mister Woodward and
Speaker 2: Carl Bernstein as well, of course iconic Redford and Hoffman
Speaker 2: in the movie All the President's Men. And part of
Speaker 2: that over a lifetime has been each and every newspaper,
Speaker 2: Republican and Democrat, they endorse candidates. That's the way it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be. There's been a shift. Here is a
Speaker 2: final question to mister Woodward. We asked about newspapers and
Speaker 2: should they endorse a presidential candidate.
Speaker 3: That's obviously up to them. At the Washington Post, there's
Speaker 3: a big controversy about the non endorsement. Now the Washington
Speaker 3: Post I know very well for over fifty two years.
Speaker 3: Is I say it's strong when the reporting is strong
Speaker 3: as it has been now, I think it's been magnificent,
Speaker 3: and the editor datorial page should deal with the strength
Speaker 3: of that reporting. The editorial page needs to deal with reality,
Speaker 3: and the reporting is real and incredibly strong. To ignore
Speaker 3: it is to ignore reality. Not a good thing for
Speaker 3: any institution.
Speaker 2: Bob Woodward there in the selection the newsmaker over the
Speaker 2: weekend and Seltzer in Des Moines. I worked with her
Speaker 2: years ago full disclosure on polling for Bloomberg News. She
Speaker 2: came out with a poll that said Vice President Harris
Speaker 2: was doing and I'm going to say this, it was
Speaker 2: an amateur better than good and I created a firestorm
Speaker 2: over the weekend. What a joy to go out I
Speaker 2: eighty today, go south of I eighty down to the
Speaker 2: Raccoon River and there in west of Moines. It's the Vatican,
Speaker 2: folks of polling. It's the one the young kids in
Speaker 2: polling respect the most. And Seltzer on our election, it's.
Speaker 1: A continuation of what we saw in September, which is
Speaker 1: the difference between June and September. Were more people, dramatically
Speaker 1: more people saying that they were likely to vote. That
Speaker 1: measurement would be I'm going to definitely vote. If you
Speaker 1: just say probably, we don't count that, and that that
Speaker 1: increase accounted for Kamala Harris's bump. So less than one
Speaker 1: percent of people went for Donald Trump when thirteen percent
Speaker 1: went for Kamala Harris. And that was the difference between June.
Speaker 1: It was an eighteen point gap in June, a four
Speaker 1: point gap in September. That continues with our October poll
Speaker 1: in that the demographics more likely than average to say
Speaker 1: they will definitely vote or that they've already voted, are
Speaker 1: strong Harris demographics. It's women, it's college educated, it's younger people,
Speaker 1: it's older people as well. It's the incidents of voting.
Speaker 1: If your age sixty four and over is like ninety
Speaker 1: four percent, that's a really big number, and she does
Speaker 1: very well with older Iowans.
Speaker 2: And Selzer of Iowa always of Iowa. We thank all
Speaker 2: Over team for getting that interview on short notice. Here
Speaker 2: this morning, we look forward to election day tomorrow and
Speaker 2: beyond differing opinions about how painful this is going to be.
Speaker 2: Do we get out to a ten pm decision election night?
Speaker 2: Do we go out further leading our coverage? Joe Matthew
Speaker 2: Kayley Lynes, John Ferrell, and Amory Horden will join in
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