How Bizarre (Or Great) Will The 2020 Election Be?

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by Sarah Pappalardo (Reductress) and Dave Weigel (The Washington Post) for a look ahead at an election that’s practically happening tomorrow. Could one party take both houses of Congress? How is the Presidential race shaping up? And will American voters have to jack up their pandemic risk just to plunk down a ballot?

Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/how-bizarre-or-great-will-2020-election-be

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0:00.0	Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast.
0:14.6	The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.
0:18.8	My name is Alex Schmitt, I'm also known as Schmiddie the Clam, I'm also known as Schmiddie
0:21.7	the Clam, but I am also speaking to some of you through the Cracked.com YouTube channel.
0:28.9	Hello YouTube, we are now cross posting the full audio of these podcast episodes to YouTube.
0:35.7	That's a new thing starting with this one and I think that's great.
0:39.3	That is the one and only message I want to get across about this.
0:43.0	It's just great, it's a whole new platform we can reach at.
0:46.4	And I think today's episode is great and also very straightforward.
0:49.6	Our topic is How Bizarre or Great Will the 2020 Election Be?
0:54.6	Pretty self explanatory, how is the US Federal Election for Presidents and Congress shaping up?
1:05.2	Plus, how will voting work when there's potentially an ongoing pandemic?
1:10.0	Also I have two programming notes about this episode.
1:12.5	One is that we taped the show this past Wednesday, so a lot of the tragic police-insighted violence
1:17.6	happening on top of coronavirus had not happened yet.
1:20.9	And this episode is forward looking to November, topic-wise.
1:24.6	That's what we're focused on.
1:26.4	So the facts and figures and everything are still accurate.
1:29.0	It's still the same polls and situations.
1:31.7	But it does not touch on the past few days of violence, even though I'm sure that's
1:35.7	at the front of many of your minds, so please don't be surprised when it doesn't come up.
1:40.6	Second programming note, I am joined by two amazing guests this week.
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