Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Normally, the show with Normalish takes for when the news gets weird. I am Mary Catherine Ham. And I am Carol Markowitz, and it is a very weird week here at Normally and around the country. It is indeed. It is, as you are listening, election day, the day, although we have like kind of

election season now because a lot of people early vote. Election day itself is a day when

there's not as much to talk about somewhat ironically because people are doing the thing we've

been waiting for them to do. Right.

But every single friend of mine is blowing up my phone.

So what do you think?

What do you think is going to happen?

Yep.

So while we don't have actual info for this day, we can talk about the projected info and what we think about it. There was a very sort of in the political world, somewhat earth-shattering

poll that came out, was it Saturday night? Over the weekend, yeah. Over the weekend by Anne Selzer,

who is a pollster in Iowa, who is considered very reliable, sort of a gold standard of pollster, reliable, particularly in Iowa.

So her work is important to people who study these things.

And she came out with a poll with Harris up three in Iowa.

Which Trump is supposed to win.

Yes.

This is important because Trump generally during his career has

basically turned Iowa red. He was the one who did it. Obama turned it blue. Trump took it back

red by pretty large margins. So if this is real, it signals real trouble for him in other places

in the Midwest. Right. It could be a bellwether for other

states and it could be very bad for him. Right. The broader picture, by the way, in the 538 average,

which is another one of these nerdy things that everyone looks at, Trump now leads 49% to 46.5%, which may

not sound like much, as Jim Garrity puts it,

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