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Hello and welcome to a special Slate Political Gap Fest for Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016.

The Is It Groundhog Day or Is It The Day After Iowacoccuses edition.

I am David Plott's, about us.

Skira, I'm in Washington, DC.

Jamal Buie, Slate's chief political correspondent, joins us from Iowa.

We'll talk to Jamal in one second.

And Chairman of the Slate Group, Jacob Weissberg, is in New York.

And of course, yesterday was the Is It The Day After Iowacoccus.

There's tons of news about it, and we're going to talk about all of it.

Let's start, though, with you, Jamal.

Where are you in Iowa?

And what did you witness last night?

Did you witness scenes of carnage and a Belgian?

Well, I'm currently in a hotel outside Des Moines.

And last night, I went to a caucus location at Drake University.

And I saw an auditorium full of students selling very loudly and very sadly for the candidates,

including surprisingly, like a handful of O'Malley kids.

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