Geoff Garin on Truth in Polling and Jim Tankersley on the Slow Demise of America's Middle Class

Episode 41,   Aug 05, 2020, 10:08 PM

Political pollster Geoff Garin sifts through the over abundance of American opinion data to show a clearer picture of voter sentiments come November and economics reporter Jim Tankersley documents the past 20 years of policy decisions that have destroyed the middle class.

The specter of 2016 still looms in the minds of Democrats everywhere, creating no small amount of fear and uncertainty about what might happen come November. But while caution may prove prudent, there is no denying that there are stark differences between four years ago and today. Hart Research Associates president Geoff Garin outlines key polling numbers explaining a likely turn away from Trump in the coming months. And nowhere is that resentment towards the current status quo felt more than among America's beaten and broken middle class, whom New York Times economics reporter Jim Tankersley explores the plight of in his new book "The Riches of the Land."