The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for November 7th, 2014, the Multitudinous States Incarnadine edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in Washington, D.C. Red. Everywhere is red. Red.

On today's show, the overwhelming Republican victory on Tuesday night. Our first segment,

what happened. Second segment, what will happen now? Third segment, ballot initiatives.

Why is a country that wants higher minimum wages and is stoned voting

Republican? And we'll have cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus, Emily and I, and maybe John,

I'm not sure if John's even going to be in Slate Plus, we'll try to come up with conundrums for our

live show next week. I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, who is in New Haven.

Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News, who is in New York, even though you don't work for the New York Times. Emily's the New York Times, yet she's in New Haven. You're the non-New York Times, yet you're in New York. Riddle me this. Well, that's because we had the big election show here up in New York, so I had to be on set. And you were so good and smart. Oh, that's so sweet of you. You watched? I did, only because you were on, because I really hate TV punditry the night of the election, but I wanted to see you. I had the same great experience, which is that I was in my in-law's house in Queens and my mother, who is just a mother-in-law, excuse me,

he's a rabid Republican. My mother is not a rabid Republican. My mother-in-law is a rabid Republican, but she flipped to CBS, and they were like, and I heard this dulcet to Gersonian tones and raced in to watch.

You were the only one with any facts, as far as I could tell, at least in the 10 minutes.

In all of America.

In all of America. watch. You were the only one with any facts as far as I could tell, at least in the ten of

America.

In all of America.

It was great.

It was insane to try and keep it all straight.

I'm sure.

In one point, I almost wandered into a shot.

Like, it would have been hugely embarrassing, like career-ending embarrassment.

But they, fortunately, there was a cutaway, and I didn't get, it was a pretty intense

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