I'm Maria Kannakova and I'm Nate Silver and our new podcast Risky Business is a show about making better decisions.

We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players and that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show.

We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions.

Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself.

And of course we'll be talking about the election too.

Listen on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Two major problems are popping up the Democrats did not see coming.

One of them is losing support among Hispanic voters and then this is the most crushing item on their list

which is they're losing among African American voters with a African American woman

they promise in Kamla Harris.

How bad is it? Barack Obama on the campaign trail and this is a NBC headline

has one particularly tough crowd, young black men, this coming out of Tucson, Arizona.

If there's a prototypical Kamah Harris voter, it might seem to be Charles Johnson a 23 year old black

college student. NBC writes Johnson is informed and politically engaged he

went to hear former President Barack Obama speak Friday

at a Democratic campaign rally at the University of Arizona campus. Yet he

isn't all that impressed with Obama. Whoa. The nation's first black president, Nor Harris, who would

be the second. Again, this still makes me laugh. Like everybody's like, oh yeah, yeah she's black now he says he's

leaning towards voting for Donald Trump the media says he Trump is horrible and he's

racist and he's going to bring us back but he's only gaining support with black voters, Johnson said in an interview.

He's only gaining support with black men.

Democrats have been unnerved by recent polls that are backing up this data.

They're showing that Harris's numbers are sagging among black voters, particularly young

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