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Music Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Halloween, October 31st, 2014.

The I'll disown you if you marry a Republican edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in Washington, D.C., on this week's show,

apparently there's an election on Tuesday. Can the Democrats avoid a total debacle? John Dickerson will tell us.

Then the last acceptable prejudice in American life, it's partyism. We will explain what that is.

And do we need a law against it? And then Gamergate,

the Byzantine, poisonous, crazy politics of video games. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter,

and in Slate Plus the town that wants to ban tobacco. Will they be able to do that?

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News are both in New York. Slate's New York City. They are plotting against me there. What have you come up with? The conspiracy. Let it begin. We're going to shave off your beard remotely. That would be an interesting thing. Maybe we could get a sponsor to do that. Maybe Harry's could do that. Before we get started, there are just a couple of quick announcements. 78 announcements.

They're just a couple. Look, you don't ever have to do these announcements, don't. Just keep your mouth shut.

Looking forward with a beaded breath. I have to deal with it. I'm the person dealing with all this.

I'm not blaming you.

I'm fellow feeling.

I'm feeling your pain.

Okay.

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