There's More to the Story With Recent Bumps in the Polls

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 24, 2017

Six months into Trump's presidency, where are his approval ratings? Are the bumps in recent polls real? Andrew Gelman, Professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University, contributor to Washington Post's Monkey Cage and the author of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks and Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do says there's more the story than just meets the eye. He unpacks the numbers and offers statistical analysis of recent polls of President Trump's approval ratings.

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