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Single best idea and an election across this nation. Good morning to all of you around the world. Thank you for the reach of YouTube. Subscribe to Bloomberg podcast. The international audience has caught us by surprise. Thrilled to have you listen to us in your Pacific rim evening in the later afternoon and continental Europe as well. It is an election, got some complaints. People are like, okay, lose the politics. Can we talk about why bore Well, I didn't get that, but you get the idea. No, it
is the political season and many people. We talked to Henrietta Treys and Terry Hayes making very clear there is an election impact. We'll see what that is in the coming days. And Frankly out into Q one of twenty twenty five today and Selza joined us on polling. But first Bob Woodward out with his new book War. He's had done many interviews. I didn't spend that much time on the book. We talked to Bob Woodward about America
in the politics of the present moment. Here Bob Woodward on President Trump.
That speculation, I don't know. What is very interesting is to listen to Trump in the last couple of days. He's in a very sour mood. And I think it was yesterday or the day before he said, then this is the man who wants to be president again. He's very dark, very profane comments, and he said, this is a crooked country. Now imagine somebody, this is not a crooked country. It may become one if he becomes president.
Bob Woodward an entire generation changing and shifting on journalism in the early nineteen seventies because of mister Woodward and Carl Bernstein as well, of course iconic Redford and Hoffman in the movie All the President's Men. And part of that over a lifetime has been each and every newspaper, Republican and Democrat, they endorse candidates. That's the way it's supposed to be. There's been a shift. Here is a
final question to mister Woodward. We asked about newspapers and should they endorse a presidential candidate.
That's obviously up to them. At the Washington Post, there's a big controversy about the non endorsement. Now the Washington Post I know very well for over fifty two years. Is I say it's strong when the reporting is strong as it has been now, I think it's been magnificent, and the editor datorial page should deal with the strength of that reporting. The editorial page needs to deal with reality, and the reporting is real and incredibly strong. To ignore
it is to ignore reality. Not a good thing for any institution.
Bob Woodward there in the selection the newsmaker over the weekend and Seltzer in Des Moines. I worked with her years ago full disclosure on polling for Bloomberg News. She came out with a poll that said Vice President Harris was doing and I'm going to say this, it was an amateur better than good and I created a firestorm over the weekend. What a joy to go out I eighty today, go south of I eighty down to the Raccoon River and there in west of Moines. It's the Vatican,
folks of polling. It's the one the young kids in polling respect the most. And Seltzer on our election, it's.
A continuation of what we saw in September, which is the difference between June and September. Were more people, dramatically more people saying that they were likely to vote. That measurement would be I'm going to definitely vote. If you just say probably, we don't count that, and that that increase accounted for Kamala Harris's bump. So less than one percent of people went for Donald Trump when thirteen percent went for Kamala Harris. And that was the difference between June.
It was an eighteen point gap in June, a four point gap in September. That continues with our October poll in that the demographics more likely than average to say they will definitely vote or that they've already voted, are strong Harris demographics. It's women, it's college educated, it's younger people, it's older people as well. It's the incidents of voting. If your age sixty four and over is like ninety four percent, that's a really big number, and she does very well with older Iowans.
And Selzer of Iowa always of Iowa. We thank all Over team for getting that interview on short notice. Here this morning, we look forward to election day tomorrow and beyond differing opinions about how painful this is going to be. Do we get out to a ten pm decision election night? Do we go out further leading our coverage? Joe Matthew Kayley Lynes, John Ferrell, and Amory Horden will join in
the seven o'clock hour for that coverage. Tomorrow Night will be with you Wednesday morning as well as tomorrow morning here on surveillance. We're out on Apple podcasts, on YouTube podcasts. This is single best idea
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