Last Thursday, ABC News finalized the lineup for the third Democratic primary debates — only 10 candidates will participate, and they will all take the stage on the same night. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates whether the field has been winnowed to 10 and looks at the potential dynamic of the third Democratic primary debate now that there’s only one night of action.
Plus, in a round of “Good Use of Polling or Bad Use of Polling?” the team discusses a Monmouth University poll released last week that suggests there is essentially a three-way tie between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The pollster who conducted the survey described it as an “outlier.” Does that matter?
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