Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen
Hosted by Henry Olsen · Ricochet
4.6from 100 ratings
- 175
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 100
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen
Each week Henry Olsen, columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will talk about the presidential and congressional races with leading political journalists and analysts, people who are out in the field and won't give you media spin. Find out who's leading the pack and who's an also-ran, with Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen.
- Publisher
- Ricochet
- Category
- government · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 175 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Throwing Cold Water on the Blue Wave
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Way On Base
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Trump Tornado and Danger in the Dust Bowl
Inside a recent episode
Throwing Cold Water on the Blue Wave
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So my general baseline is on the weekend before Election Day is that a blizzard of polls comes out. I'm going to look at the average. If the Democrat is ahead with 48 or 48 and a half percent in one of these key states and they have a lead of two point or less or more, I'm going to say they probably should be the favorite. A polling error could mean they lose, but it would have to be a pretty bad polling error. Even the Bob Casey error, Casey's lead was narrowly under two points and he won. He lost by only like three tenths of a percent. If the Democrat is ahead by, you know, like two and a half points, but they were 47 percent, that's going to be a harder race for me to say that they're a favorite. […]
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- 4.6 / 5
- 81 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 19 ratings
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