280: What The Polls Tell Us with Jim Gerstein & Dr. Whit Ayers

<div>Politics War Room ON TOUR  - live show in Boston on 11/2 at <a href="https://www.politicon.com/tour-category/politicon-at-92ny/">politicon.com/tour</a> <br /><br /><strong>Watch Politics War Room &amp; James Carville Explains on </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsWarRoomOfficial"><strong>YouTube @PoliticsWarRoomOfficial</strong></a><br /><br />James and Al share their takes on the candidates' closing arguments, contextualize Biden’s garbage comment, and examine the effect of Trump’s MSG rally before welcoming pollsters Jim Gerstein and Dr. Whit Ayers. They discuss the numbers going into the final week of the election, explore the most significant issues influencing voters, debate how the undecided might break, compare what we see to recent elections, and weigh the chances Colin Allred has of defeating Ted Cruz in the race for the Texas Senate seat.<br /><br />Email your questions to James and Al at <a href="mailto:POLITICSWARROOM@GMAIL.COM">politicswarroom@gmail.com</a> or tweet them to<a href="http://www.twitter.com/@politicon"> @politicon</a>.  Make sure to include your city– we love to hear where you’re from!<br /><br /><strong>More from James and Al</strong><br /><br /><strong>Get tickets for the Politics War Room live shows in Boston on 11/2 at </strong><a href="https://www.politicon.com/tour-category/politicon-at-92ny/"><strong><a href="http://politicon.com/tour">politicon.com/tour</a></strong></a><strong> </strong><br /><br /><strong>Get </strong><a href="https://politicon.attn.tv/p/z6Z/landing-page"><strong>text updates</strong></a><strong> from Politics War Room and Politicon.</strong><br /><br /><strong>Watch Politics War Room &amp; James Carville Explains on </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsWarRoomOfficial"><strong>YouTube @PoliticsWarRoomOfficial</strong></a><br /><br /><strong>CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID </strong>hits theaters November 1st at the Angelika in D.C.  Get tickets now at <a href="http://carvilledoc.com/tickets">CarvilleDoc.com/tickets</a>.  You can also get updates and some great behind-the-scenes content by following James on Twitter <a href="https://x.com/JamesCarville?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@jamescarville</a> and his new TikTok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@realjamescarville">@realjamescarville</a><br /><br /><strong>James Carville &amp; Al Hunt have launched the </strong><a href="http://www.politicswarroom.com/"><strong>Politics War Room Substack</strong></a><br /><br /><strong>Get More From This Week’s Guests: </strong><br /><br /><strong>Jim Gerstein: </strong><a href="https://www.gbaostrategies.com/team">GBAO Strategies </a><br /><br /><strong>Dr. Whit Ayres: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/whitayres">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/whit-ayres">University of Chicago</a> | <a href="https://www.northstaropinion.com/">North Star Opinion</a> | <a href="https://theaapc.org/board-of-directors/whit-ayres/">AAPC</a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/2016-Beyond-Republicans-President-America/dp/1927967392">Author</a><br /><br /><strong>Please Support Our Sponsors:</strong><br /><br /><strong>HelloFresh:</strong><br />Get 10 free meals at <a href="http://hellofresh.com/freewarroom">hellofresh.com/freewarroom</a> applied across 7 boxes– new subscribers only, varied by plan.<br /><br /><strong>Naked Wines:</strong><br />To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to <a href="http://nakedwines.com/warroom">nakedwines.com/warroom</a> and use code <strong>WARROOM</strong> for both the code and password.  <br /><br /><strong>Laundry Sauce:</strong><br />For 15% off your order, head to <a href="http://laundrysauce.com/warroom">laundrysauce.com/warroom</a> and use code <strong>WARROOM</strong>