Extremely Surprising Midterms

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the midterm results we have so far and the Supreme Court case that could upend family law and more for Native Americans. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Stefan Becket for CBS News: “The Unresolved 2022 House And Senate Races That Will Determine Control Of Congress” Rebecca Nagle for The Atlantic: “The Supreme Court Case That Could Break Native American Sovereignty” Leah Litman and Matthew L.M. Fletcher for The Atlantic: “The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act” Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Sarah McCammon for NPR: “Where Abortion Was On The Ballot, Midterm Voters Largely Signaled Support” David: David chattered about how going on a “Twitter fast” is improving his well-being. Listener chatter from Scott Grant: Sarah Linn for KCET: “The Dunites: Building a Utopia in the Oceano Dunes” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John take the under-the-radar state and local midterm results they find most interesting. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate political gab fest.
0:16.0	November 10th, 2022, the extremely surprising election edition.
0:21.2	I am David Plots of CityCast on a Denver, Colorado, gathering with my CityCast.
0:25.7	My CityCast tribe, I'm so happy to be here, but it does mean that I'm not in Washington
0:29.9	DC.
0:30.9	So we have no Washington DC presence because John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time is in New
0:35.9	York fresh off what was probably like 67 straight hours of staring at a map.
0:40.7	Hello John.
0:41.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:42.7	Well, staring mostly at tables, actually, of who voted where and how much and all that.
0:47.8	But yes, a lot of staring into a small screen.
0:51.4	And then Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School, she
0:55.1	does know staring only gazing contemplatively at the heavens.
1:00.2	Hello, Emily from New Haven.
1:02.2	Hello, good morning.
1:03.6	I like that image of myself.
1:05.3	This week on the gab fest, we will devote our first two segments to the election.
1:10.5	What happened?
1:11.5	Why did it happen?
1:12.8	What was surprising?
1:14.8	And who won?
1:15.8	We'll talk about that in the first segment.
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