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This is the Brian McLean Show.

Welcome back at the Brown-McLean Show.

This is episode 50.

One week away from my election

primer. I'm going to be doing next week on November 2nd. I think it's the day I have it scheduled

to have that out. And I'll be talking about how I think you should vote or, you know,

giving you some recommendations, not based on which candidate to choose, but, well,

in some cases, yes, but, you know, how I think that this election could shake out.

So that's one week from today, so keep that in mind.

Hopefully you'll be looking forward to that podcast.

But today I want to talk about another topic, and I think it fits into the 2016 election

and really into all of our political conversations that go on, whether it's 2016 or 2017,

whatever the case may be.

And that is this idea of American exceptionalism. You hear this phrase bandied about,

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