Jane Mayer, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy on the election and what’s next.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 9 November 2012
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Jane Mayer, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy on the election and what's next.
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| 1:10.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors |
| 1:14.4 | about politics. It's Thursday, November 8th. I'm Dorothy Wickend, an executive editor |
| 1:19.1 | of The New Yorker. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. |
| 1:31.3 | We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily |
| 1:38.5 | stirs passions. In President Obama's victory speech the other night, he returned to the inspirational |
| 1:44.4 | oratory of 2008. |
| 1:46.3 | America's never been about what can be done for us. |
| 1:48.8 | It's about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating but necessary |
| 1:54.8 | work of self-government. |
| 1:58.3 | That's the principle we were founded on. |
| 2:01.8 | John Cassidy, Jane Mayer, and Ryan Liza are here to talk about the election and about what |
| 2:06.3 | happens next. John, moderates, you among them, see Obama's victory as a triumph over |
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