It’s October, and the surprises are rolling in. OPEC+ introduced it’s chopping oil manufacturing by two million barrels a day, President Biden is speaking about the specter of nuclear “Armageddon” and footwear preserve dropping within the Georgia Senate race. To spherical up every thing that’s occurring, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew tries to rank the electoral significance of a number of the largest tales within the information proper now.
Additionally they ask whether or not a longstanding metric from Gallup — which exhibits strengths for Republicans — is an efficient use of polling.
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