Political Gabfest - The Polls Do Not Look Amazing For Democrats
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson concerning polls for Democrats, women protesting Iran’s regime, and the trial of Arkansas’ law targeting trans kids.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Roya Hakakian for The Atlantic: “The Bonfire of the Headscarves”
A Beginner’s Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curious, by Roya Hakakian
Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: “Pre-Registering Some Takes On The Midterms: Why I Think Democrats Will Undershoot Their Polling And What It Means”
Kelli María Korducki for The Atlantic: “'I Think the Women Are Winning': Roya Hakakian on Iran”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump; Michael Wines and Neil Vigdor for The New York Times: “Videos Show Confusion as Florida Police Arrest People on Voter Fraud Charges”
Emily: Emily Heil for The Washington Post: “Olivia Wilde Solves Salad Dressing Mystery With A Nora Ephron Recipe”
David: Jeff Maysh for The Atlantic: “The $30 Million Lottery Scam”
Listener chatter from Lara Lowenstein: The Mountain Dogs
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss Ye buying Parler.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.
Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this late political Gab Fest. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm October 20th, 2022, the polls do not look amazing for Democrats edition. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm David Plotz. I'm CityCast. I'm in Brooklyn, New York. I'm in Slate's, Brooklyn Studios. So exciting. And I'm not alone. I'm with none other, none other. Then Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. So nice to see you. John, we miss you. |
| 0:37.5 | John was going to be with us. |
| 0:38.9 | But mysteriously, John, who lives in New York, John Dickerson of CBS primetime with John Dickerson, is in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm so sad not to be with you. |
| 0:46.9 | This week, GabFest listeners, you'll be sustained through the storms and rains of the following topics. |
| 0:52.4 | First, how bad are the midterms looking for Democrats? |
| 0:55.2 | Are the polls dire or not? Then we will talk about the extraordinary Iran protests with Iranian-American |
| 1:02.7 | writer Roya Hakakkakian. Then we will talk about a critical fight over trans rights in Arkansas |
| 1:08.9 | and a really interesting legal case there. Plus, of course, |
| 1:12.5 | we'll have cocktail chatter. And a reminder, GapFest listeners, we are going to be in Atlanta on |
| 1:17.8 | Wednesday, November 2nd, in just two weeks at 7 p.m. at Georgia Tech's first center for the arts. |
| 1:24.5 | Go to slate.com slash Gap fest live to get tickets to that show. |
| 1:28.2 | We loved being in Atlanta last time. |
| 1:29.7 | We want to continue that trend. |
| 1:31.4 | So please join us, slate.com slash gap fest live to see us at Georgia Tech on Wednesday, |
| 1:37.1 | November 2nd. |
| 1:39.8 | John, a couple of months ago, Democrats were cautiously optimistic about the midterm elections. The gas prices were declining. Biden and the Democrats had passed some big bills, the Inflation Reduction Act, notably Republicans were running some atrocious candidates and the Dobbs decision, which, though catastrophic from a policy perspective, |
| 2:01.6 | seem to be animating women voters. Now as the election gets closer, the thing that generally |
| 2:07.5 | happens in a lot of elections, the fundamentals are asserting themselves. Most voters are unhappy |
| 2:13.3 | with Biden and by extension with Democrats. The Dobbs' enthusiasm seems to be waning. |
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