Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E153: Biden 52 — Trump 48

Episode 153 has been uploaded.

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: On January 15th the Biden Campaign let loose the results of its internal polling. They insisted, at what was for them the nadir of the campaign, that there would be an O.S.M. … an oh-spit-moment … only they didn’t say spit … at which point the undecideds who had convinced themselves that Trump would NOT be the Republican nominee and thus they would have a different alternative, would realize Trump HAD GOTTEN the Republican nomination and … oh spit. And all the undecideds would break to Biden.
• New Marquette Law School Poll, among likely voters: Biden 52 Trump 48. Likely Voters. The Marquette Law School Poll, February 15? Marquette Law School Poll: Likely Voters, TRUMP 52 Biden 48. An eight point swing in 43 days. Oh spit!

Newsmax spun this by saying that Biden has a 2-point lead over Trump. I guess with Republican math, 52 — 48 = 2.

The rest of the podcast is “Things I Promised Not To Tell” from Episode 152. (Keith Olbermann had a colonoscopy on Thursday.)

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• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: 45 years ago at this moment, a week or so after I had met Bob Iger and got his advice on how to get started in television, the letter that would change my career and my life, was somewhere, in transit, between New York City and Ithaca, New York. The story of the man who sent it, and why what he wrote mattered so much: The Lou Adler Letter.