Goodbye To 2020

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 2020's final installment of the podcast, the crew looks back at the year that was. They consider the most surprising political stories of the year, fess up to what they think they got right (or wrong) and answer questions from listeners. They also assess whether many pollsters' decision to sit out the Georgia Senate runoffs is a "good or bad use of polling." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're not gonna be able to hear it because you're wearing headphones, Nate.
0:02.3	Okay, let me, I'm putting the microphone near the...
0:04.9	Can you hear that?
0:06.1	No.
0:07.0	This is chicken-clucking.
0:08.3	Wh-
0:08.8	Wh-
0:09.8	F-ck-buck!
0:11.3	F-ck-buck!
0:12.3	F-ck-buck!
0:15.3	F-ck-buck!
0:18.6	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:21.6	I'm Galen Drouk, and I should also say welcome to the last episode of 2020.
0:27.5	We made it. Happy New Year, everyone.
0:30.2	Given that the year is coming to a close, we're gonna take a look back at the biggest political surprises of the year.
0:36.4	And talk about some of the things we got right or wrong.
0:39.9	We're also gonna open up the mailbag and answer some of your questions about this wild and crazy and frankly tough year.
0:46.8	But before we do all that, we are going to check in on the Senate runoff elections in Georgia,
0:52.1	where in one week, Georgians will decide which party will control the Senate in 2021.
0:58.4	I should also mention that last night, after delaying a week, President Trump did sign the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill
1:06.0	that we discussed on last week's podcast.
1:08.6	So, here with me to wrap up the year, our Editor-in-Chief in Aid Silver, Haney.
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