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Political Gabfest

Floating Island of Garbage

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the final week of the presidential campaign; the threats to election integrity; and the consequences of not endorsing. Join us on December 4 for Political Gabfest Live in Brooklyn! Tickets are on sale now. And send us your Conundrums at slate.com/conundrum. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the floating island of garbage edition.

0:21.0

I am David Platz of City Cast in Washington, D.C. from New Haven, Connecticut, where she

0:28.3

had travails voting.

0:30.3

From Yale University, Laws.

0:31.6

No, don't say that.

0:33.0

It was great.

0:34.0

I loved it.

0:35.0

Every second of it.

0:36.0

Everyone should go do it.

0:37.0

I guess your state put obstacles in the way of you voting even more easily

0:41.0

than you would have otherwise Emily Bazelon.

0:43.0

Okay, I had to wait a little while.

0:44.8

Everything was wonderful.

0:47.0

And that appeal of laughter, of course, is from John Dickerson of CBS

0:52.4

News in New York City.

0:53.5

Hello John.

0:54.5

Oh, hello, hello, hello.

0:57.8

This week on the Gabfest, oh my God,

1:00.8

it's the final week of the presidential campaign. What matters? Where do we stand?

1:05.0

Then, Nate Percley of Stanford is going to join us to talk through what might be done to subvert the election results, what legal action is taking

1:15.2

place around the polls, and what we should worry about, and what we shouldn't worry about.

1:21.5

Then the Washington Post trips all over itself when it declines to endorse a presidential

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