How Democrats Defied the Odds

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week’s elections have been startlingly close. Control of both chambers of Congress remain up in the air. Historically, the president’s party is blown away in midterms. And the Democrats were further hampered this time round by President Biden’s unpopularity. Considering the headwinds, how did they do so well? Guest: Nate Cohn, chief political analyst for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.
0:07.0	Today, in this week's midterm elections, the Republican playbook backfired across the
0:17.5	country and allowed Democrats to defy decades of political history.
0:24.8	My colleague, Nate Cone, has been analyzing the results to understand why.
0:31.8	It's Thursday, November 10.
0:38.8	You feeling good? I am, I think.
0:41.8	Do you want me to give you a cup of coffee?
0:43.8	Can I be psychologically useful? Or should we just start?
0:45.8	I think we should just start.
0:47.8	Okay. Nate?
0:48.8	Michael, welcome back to your once every few year post-election medical checkup.
0:55.8	Where we were having a review, how you did.
0:59.8	Mezzus about my sleep trouble.
1:01.8	How we did? No, this is about polling.
1:04.8	And just to start, before we get into why what happened, happened the way it did,
1:10.8	and whether our polling was accurate or not, I just want to catch us up on where the election stands
1:17.8	at this moment.
1:18.8	It is about 4.25 p.m. on the East Coast on Wednesday.
1:23.8	And when a Stead and I left the studio about 12 and a half hours ago at 4 a.m., we told
1:29.8	listeners that control of the House and the Senate was uncertain and that that represented
1:33.8	a major disappointment for Republicans in these midterm elections.
1:37.8	How uncertain does control of both chambers remain at this moment?
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