Is It Time for Democrats to Panic?
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Democrats suffered major losses in local and state elections this week. Are the results a harbinger for the party’s fate heading into the 2022 midterms?
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Destination Canada. |
| 0:03.7 | Sometimes life just gets overwhelming. |
| 0:05.7 | It's time to take a breath. |
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| 0:39.7 | So Jim, do you feel like saying I told you so at this moment? |
| 1:09.0 | Like a wee bit, maybe? |
| 1:19.1 | Back in September, Slates Jimnual wrote this article. |
| 1:23.4 | It was called, uh, maybe Democrats should start paying attention to the Virginia governor's |
| 1:28.5 | race. |
| 1:29.5 | It's not like I'm the only one who thought that, but not enough people thought that, and |
| 1:34.2 | I was very surprised why. |
| 1:38.0 | Jim was not just looking at the poll numbers when he wrote this. |
| 1:41.6 | Although even back then, polling was looking pretty good for the Republican candidate, Glen |
| 1:46.4 | Youngkin. |
| 1:47.4 | Jim was looking at the history. |
| 1:50.8 | History is kind of the architecture here. |
| 1:52.6 | A new party takes over, and typically in all but one Virginia governor's election, the |
| 1:58.8 | last 12 of them, the other party has then won the Virginia governor's race. |
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