Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd, and this is the Chuck Todd cast. So it is now Friday, November 8th. We've all had a few days to digest what happened on Election Day. We're still waiting for some final results in a couple of Senate races, including Arizona and Nevada. And depending on who

you ask, even Pennsylvania, it is still a chance Democrats could win the House, but very unlikely.

We are waiting for some returns still out west. But let's be honest, we have the, we certainly

know what happened this election, even if we have a few results

that we don't know just yet.

But outside of those questions, we still have a lot of data to digest.

So that's why today's a good one for Dante Cheney to come back with us.

He of, of course, the godfather of data download back in my meet the press days.

And we did a lot of great work together on the NBC News poll over the years.

He no longer has an NBC connection. He does some work for the Wall Street Journal, Michigan State

University, among others. But before we get started, I will remind you, stick around for an extended

question mailbag at the end of this discussion. I didn't take any questions on my last one,

and I'm going to take more than one this time. We've gotten a ton of email. We got some this discussion. I didn't take any questions on my last one, and I'm going to take

more than one this time. We've gotten a ton of email. We've got some fun ones. I even had to do a little

bit of research to make sure I can answer your questions accurately about the Constitution.

So you will be pleased with that if you know what question you asked me on that front.

So please remember, by the way, submit some questions. Any questions you have to the

chuck todcast at gmail.com. Don't forget to the. And with that, Dante, I'm going to sort of do

something. I usually have my own little ramble that I begin with before I start the interview.

But I made you do a little bit of homework. You, you know, made you read my opus that I have right now on

NBCNews.com.

And I'm, I'm just going to highlight two parts of my thesis and then use it as a jumping off point to start our discussion.

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