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🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the vast majority. I'm Jacob and Deputy Editor Micah |
0:05.6 | Utricked joined by staff writer Megan Day. What's up Megan? |
0:09.9 | Hey Micah, what's up? That's a good question question I think that we are at a really critical |
0:13.7 | juncture politically and I feel you know pretty pretty strange about it how do you feel |
0:19.6 | I feel definitely that America is at a crossroads 100% wow that's really powerful |
0:24.7 | go on. We're just a couple days ahead of the election here and I don't know I was I I have these sort of lingering feelings from 2016 |
0:36.6 | which is like things could go wrong all the polls are wrong like we're about to |
0:41.6 | have another nightmare bestowed upon us then I'm |
0:43.9 | hearing people say actually like the the margins are overwhelming that there's |
0:48.0 | there's really very little chance that Joe Biden and Connell Harris don't pull |
0:52.3 | this thing out. |
0:53.0 | And then we have this conversation, |
0:54.6 | which we're gonna get to in a second, |
0:55.8 | whether we just have with Jane McElavian Jane |
0:57.6 | is a little more bearish than bullish on Biden's, |
1:01.8 | or not Biden's chances, but on whether or not Trump will try to pull some shenanigans or will, you know, win the |
1:07.8 | electoral college vote but lose the popular vote. |
1:10.3 | I mean, all these things as possibilities. |
1:12.1 | It's quite a, It's quite a time. And it's like not, it's not a normal election. I mean, like, as we've discussed on this show, like it's, things are are really really dire on so many fronts and it's just I I feel like I'm getting a tug of war of my |
1:28.9 | Emotions both in the terms of the outcome of the election and in terms of how much is at stake? |
1:33.0 | I do think that there are a couple of scenarios that we need to be worried about in particular. |
1:40.0 | The first one is just a basic discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral college total, which I think is quite possible. |
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