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We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga. Today we're going to talk about we have a few

different topics, kind of a grab bag episode, no one huge overarching topic, but you know we had primary elections last night you know in a series

of states across the country and a couple things have come out of that one in particular

that we're going to dig into because it's one of these many what do you call

them you know a little kind of Easter eggs along the way to November that you think well maybe this is the maybe this is the thing that kind of

you know breaks it all open and is the you know is the key that helps us get past all the uncertainty and fog of this election.

You know, I was thinking, I was driving this morning and I was thinking how it's such a topsy-turvy election and you know in a sense it's the least

topsy-turvy. It's incredibly stable in the like you know the top line of the presidential race.

If someone's ahead or behind, you're sort of the averages,

you know, they've over a period of months and months they what jump around like one

point or two points or something like that so incredibly stable on the other hand you

have all of these contradictory signs that come out of the polls,

that come out of the economic news,

kind of everything under the sun,

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