Don't Pay Attention To That Outlier Poll You Saw

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The crew discusses what's in the "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" and why Senate Democrats have taken it up despite unmoving opposition. They also ask whether a new poll showing Biden's approval rating at just 33 percent deserves all the attention it's been getting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have a dictionary that I got as like a book award from my high school.
0:05.6	Literally, the award is a book, but it's like a nice book and it has like your name,
0:09.6	like, you know, like the, there's a little like-
0:11.6	Like in grade?
0:12.5	No, it's like what's a call like when you like you open it up and then like on the cover,
0:16.4	there's like that-
0:17.6	And inscription?
0:18.4	Yeah, exactly.
0:19.3	I guess she didn't use that dictionary since she don't know the word inscription.
0:23.1	Fair enough.
0:24.1	Wow!
0:24.8	Oh!
0:28.4	Starting this week off, um, a little aggressive way.
0:40.2	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast.
0:43.2	I'm Galen Truc.
0:44.4	I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend and MLK junior day.
0:48.4	Because it's a short and weak this week we're only going to have one podcast episode
0:52.7	and that is this episode.
0:54.5	So today, Tuesday, the Senate plans to debate the Freedom to Vote, John R. Lewis Act.
1:00.6	It is the culmination of an effort by Democrats to try to pass voting and election
1:05.4	administration legislation in the new year.
1:08.2	And it's almost certain to fail.
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