This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different looking down

the ballot, specifically those races that may determine control of the Senate.

Today we're going to look at referendums and ballot initiatives. 41 states have more than 140

measures on everything from abortion to property taxes on their ballots this November

so we're going to talk about all of that today.

And there are initiatives and referendums.

We're going to use that language a little interchangeably,

but just no, initiatives usually start with the people.

It's a citizen draft proposal that's petitioned to add to the ballot,

whereas referendums usually originate with the government or the legislature

that submits these proposals for the approval of the people. And then outside of politics, we're sharing a conversation we had on invitations.

What are we doing guys?

What are we doing?

Are we mailing them?

Are we emailing them?

Are we texting? Because are we doing Facebook invites? I just I don't think we know anymore. I think we've lost the plot on invites

so we're gonna work through. We're a workshop a little bit of that.

Before we do, we want to remind you

that the vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Wals

and Senator JD Vance is coming this Tuesday.

Sarah, I just saw some polling on JD Vance's favorability

with young people.

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