Charlie Cook & Larry Sabato break down the midterm unknowns

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It's looking increasingly like we won't be able to call the Senate on Election Day — less than a week from now — as the country braces for results that could contradict what the polling's been showing until then. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the editor-in-chief of the Crystal Ball, and Charlie Cook, founder of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, join Chuck to preview where voters' minds might end up on November 8.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:08.6	It is Wednesday, it is November 2nd and we still haven't had election day.
0:13.2	Usually we're in November and in election days right there but we're still six days away
0:17.2	from the big day.
0:19.2	So essentially it's the beginning of Election Week.
0:22.2	We have covered a lot of the individual races in recent podcasts.
0:26.5	So I want to widen our focus a bit, talk about the electorate as a whole, what we've learned
0:30.3	up until this point and frankly a reminder that maybe history does matter.
0:35.3	Again when it comes to midterms I think we all thought all historical metaphors were useless
0:40.8	in the age of Trump.
0:42.1	Maybe that is not true anymore.
0:44.9	How accurate are these polls these days?
0:46.7	What does experience tell us?
0:48.2	Well decades of midterm history actually matter again.
0:51.1	So my guess today are two of the legends.
0:52.9	When it comes to handicapping politics Larry Sabin, director of the UVA's Center for Politics
0:57.2	and the editor-in-chief of the Crystal Ball and Charlie Cook Founder of the Cook Political
1:02.2	Report with Amy Walter, Charlie and Larry.
1:05.1	I feel like I couldn't do an election season without us BSN around for 40 minutes, right?
1:10.6	Come on.
1:11.6	Sounds good.
1:12.6	But let me start with that larger premise Charlie which is in the Trump era I used to
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