This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

We are in the midst of peak campaign season as the midterms rapidly approach.

And we have been talking about many aspects of the campaigns we see in our own neighborhoods

and across the country.

And today what we're going to talk about is candidate quality.

Beth has had some interactions we're going to talk about in the first segment of the

show and then we're going to share her conversation with our Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Michelle

Keller in the main segment of the show.

And then at the end of the episode, we're going to talk about furniture and home decor,

which is my absolute most favorite topic in the world.

We hope you'll stick around and join us for that.

It's funny.

I think candidate quality as an expression is one of Mitch McConnell's biggest gifts to

all of us because it really does capture a lot of the dynamics that we're trying to navigate

in this episode.

But before we get to all of that, we are still counting down to our seventh birthday.

And we are truly touched by your participation in our ongoing birthday party.

We hope that you're enjoying the party favors that you get every time you complete one

of our challenges and fill out the form to enter to win a Pantsuit Politics Time capsule.

Today the challenge is this.

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