Episode 28: The Polling-Media-Political Consultant Industrial Complex

What do Marla Maples, Tom Arnold, and a Ph.D.-holding political scientist all have in common?  You are about to find out.

Corwin Smidt is our guest today.  Cory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at MSU.  He’s an expert in polling, voting patterns, turnout modeling, and studying the electorate and has been interviewed in places like Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Politico.

We talk polling and voters and media.  And did I mention Marla and Tom?

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