This is kind of a precarious time to be recording the podcast. Yeah, I was gonna say we should maybe wait until

The final decision gets dropped

Yeah, they've released five now or no they've released four. There's gonna be a fifth

Well, this will make a very suspenseful cold open if we get a gobs opinion while we're all standing by before

recording the podcast

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Gailand Rick. I hope everyone had a good long weekend for Juneteenth.

What would you tell a poster if they asked you if you consider yourself good or evil or just neutral?

How about if they asked you if you are lawful or chaotic or maybe a mix between the two?

Well, one poster asked Americans these questions to try to arrange them into nine categories based on a popular meme from dungeons and

Dragons and today we're going to ask if this was a good or bad use of polling. We're also gonna assess the country's new

Congressional maps now that the latest redistricting cycle is just about over. The maps haven't turned out as fair as it once seemed they would.

And we'll also discuss the latest results of our collaboration with Ipsos polling. We're tracking the most important issues in the run-up to the midterms

And digging a little deeper to find out what Americans know or think about those issues. We've got some updates on how they view political extremism

and crime and gun violence in the latest data. Here with me to discuss it all is politics editor Sir Frostensen. Hello Sarah.

Hey y'all happy Tuesday. How's it going? Good. Good. The week feels really off when we have Monday off but certainly not complaining.

Anyway, all's here with us is Elections Analyst Nathaniel. Rake, a chain Nathaniel. Hey Gailand, happy election day.

We're doing things a little bit differently this week as folks will probably realize when they're listening to this podcast.

If you're listening to this on Wednesday, Election Day already happened. We're recording on Tuesday nonetheless because we usually kick off the week with a podcast so we're gonna do that.

This week we will not have a late night or early morning reaction podcast. I mean no disrespect to Virginia which is the only state that is having its regularly scheduled primary this week.

It's just it's a little too complicated and I am sure that people can follow our live blog and get all of the information they need about Virginia on our live blog.

So definitely make sure to tune into that but we will only have another podcast this week if there is a significant ruling from the Supreme Court and you never know certainly could happen.

Anyway, all's here with us is Virginia native Elections Analyst Jeffrey Skelly. How's it going Jeffrey?

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