Georgia on my mind

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Resources: "Why Georgia has runoff elections" by Jerusalem Demsas, Vox "David Perdue and Jon Ossoff advance to Georgia Senate runoff" by Ella Nilsen and Jerusalem Demsas "Detailed Turnout Data Shows How Georgia Turned Blue" by Nate Cohn, New York Times White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica Ella Nilsen (@ella_nilsen), Politics & Policy Reporter, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please make a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:40.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew
1:44.3	Glacias here with ProPublica's Darrylind and with Vox's Ella Nilsson. She joined Jane and I right
1:51.0	before the election to talk about the Senate races that were in play. Those races wound up going,
1:57.6	I would say considerably less well for Democrats than they had hoped or anticipated based on
2:03.6	the polls. But we're now left with a situation in which there are 50 Senate seats held by Republicans,
2:11.6	48 held by Democrats and their New England independent allies, and two races outstanding in the
2:21.0	state of Georgia. So we're going to talk about that. What's at stake here seems pretty high to me.
2:28.5	I mean, if you 50-50 Senate, Kamala Harris breaks the tie. And on the most basic level, that means
2:38.3	that normal Joe Biden appointees will just get confirmed. There might be somebody Joe Manchin has a
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