Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson weighs in on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Steve with a dozen days to go
until election day, voters are
already shattering early voting
records.
Forty two million Americans have
already cast ballots.
What does this mean for the
turnout in twenty twenty
pollster Kristin Soltis Anderson
joins us right now,
Kristin. You know people are
saying look at these numbers
theyre gigantic,
and so many more Democrats are
doing early voting than
Republicans,
but that doesnt necessarily
mean theyre running away with
the show. Does it
not necessarily
in a normal year. It would be a
very good sign for Democrats
buts. This is not a normal year
and because of the pandemic, a
lot of states are pioneering new
ways to have more and more
mail in voting and thats been
particularly something that
democratic voters say they want
to do while republicans tend to
want to vote in person and on
election day
in person. Voting is only just
getting underway in many key
states.
At the moment we have many more
absentee ballot requests coming
from Democrats thats, not
necessarily a sign theyre going
to win
Steve. As you look Democrats
twice as many early voting as
Reflynn Palins Republicans,
it sounds like people are doing
the early voting because theyre
afraid
its the fear factor
that are afraid their ballots
going to get lost, somethings
going to happen to it its not
going to could be all that
stuff.
So you know the dialogue weve
had up to this point has gotten
people interested
and enthusiastic.
So how does that translate?
According to the candidates?
Well, youre completely
right.
Enthusiasm is way up this
election
over the last nineteen years. How
enthusiastic are you to vote in
this election and this year? It
is record high level for
Republicans and Democrats
in some states, like Texas,
theyve, already got. Sixty percent of the
vote turned in to match the
level that was turned in four
years ago,
so voter enthusiasm is enormous,
but its not just on the
democratic side.
Both sides are fired up and
ready to vote.
Steve sure
whats got to be troubling, for
somebody in your business would
be the shy trump voters, because
its hard to figure out you
know, is this person telling me
the truth or not?
We had a guest on an hour ago,
Kristin hes, a journalist.
He was in a barbershop in
Minnesota and he talked the
five people.
Three of the five had been
polled and they all lied.
They said were going to vote
for Joe Biden, which is a flat
out lie because they were going
to vote for Donald Trump.
It would actually be a really
big statistical anomaly for
five pardon me any number of
people in one particular
barbershop to get polled
thats when many people say
hey how come ive never been
polled
its totally normal. While I think there are,
while I think there are
certainly some folks that feel
reluctant to talk to pollsters,
I dont think that it
necessarily is going to account
for eight nine ten points worth of a
margin
is so this should be used as a
guide.
Dont focus on any one.
Individual poll
Steve manages, oh man
a dozen days to go, lets see.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-22.