Can you hear me? Can we not go naked?

Wait, I'm here. We can not hear you, Nanny.

Testing 1, 2.

Weird. Gailer's your phone.

Happy, happy Monday.

We are off to the exact kind of start that a Monday deserves.

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Gailan Drewke.

Oftentimes when we talk about American politics, we place voters and politicians on a left-right spectrum from liberal to conservative.

But people's feelings about politics can be more complicated on that.

So today, we're going to dig into a new survey that categorizes voters into at least four quadrants and tries to imagine what it would be like if America were a multi-party democracy.

We're also going to ask how much voters care about foreign policy as President Biden charts his administration's path abroad.

Biden is withdrawing all American troops from Afghanistan as the Taliban gains territory and is now weighing how to address instability in both Cuba and Haiti much closer to home.

And finally, we'll check in on infrastructure and the Democrats budget plan.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing for an initial procedural vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan on Wednesday of this week.

So we'll see how that's all going to shake out. And here we need to do that. Our editor-in-chief Nate Silver, hello Nate.

Hey everybody.

How's it going? Good to see you on the East Coast made it back from Las Vegas in one piece.

In at least one piece. In at least one piece. Okay. Also with us is politics editor Sarah for us and hello Sarah happy Monday.

Happy Monday.

And also here with us is Kristen Soltees Anderson. She's a pollster and co-founder of the Republican polling firm Eschelon insights. Welcome back to the show Kristen.

Oh, thanks for having me.

It's good to have you.

...