The Strength In Numbers Podcast with G. Elliott Morris

Dear readers, In case you missed it, Mike Podhorzer and I did a video conversation together on June 2. We talked about: * My new piece on Trump’s popularity * How the media uses polling * Why it pays to approach public opinion with nuance and uncertainty * Why traditional ad-supported media is not set up to incentivize factual discourse when it conflicts with values of partisan fairness; * and mor...

I was very kindly joined by David Nir of The Downballot on Tuesday to talk about the (successful, IMO!) launch of Strength In Numbers this week, and give a sneak peek at our first poll publishing tomorrow (Wednesday, May 14). The first few minutes will be familiar to readers because we are giving a wider audience on the Substack App the low-down on what we do here at Strength In Numbers. But the r...

This is just a quick post to draw your attention to two things: First, I’ve just uploaded an initial release of my index of economic growth to the Strength In Numbers data portal . Trump’s approval rating — now at net -6 — is also updated there. I plan to make revisions to the model powering the economic index, which I’ve released publicly online , and to very soon incorporate it into a Cost Of Ru...