Episode Details

Elections are the one moment a government publishes its intentions in advance — which is exactly why foreign services, embassies, and trading desks want the unpublished version. This episode sorts the documented record from the movie version: leaked CIA tasking orders on the 2012 French presidential race, the very open apparatus of accredited embassy observers in Kenya and Colombia, the press account of US analysts misreading Iran's 2009 election, and the hedge funds that bought private polling during Brexit. Along the way: why a campaign's internal poll is worth stealing, and whether anyone ever bothers to count the people who stayed home. Episode 6209 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6209 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/044090)