Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfest for Wednesday, November 4th, 2020, the Counting the Votes Edition, I am David Plots of City Cast. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm actually pretty well rested because I made the wise decision to take a

sleeping pill at 11 o'clock and just get get through the hard dark night of the

soul. Emily Baslan of the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School in New Haven looks,

or maybe in Philadelphia. She looks, she looks okay. Did you sleep, Emily?

I slept fine. Yeah, Well no I should take that back. I slept.

And John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes news looks really good because he's dressed for success and for television.

But John, you I think had the longest night.

Have you slept at all?

That's for sure.

I slept from about four to six, which is the worst kind of sleep of all, because you get just enough REM sleep so that you're absolutely pulled from the grave when you wake up.

And then I had to go on TV, so that was...

I know you guys have tuned in to hear us talk about our sleep so that was a good show

yeah we'll talk to you later so we're taping it is now exactly 830 a.m.

Eastern on Wednesday on on Wednesday yes on Wednesday, yes, on Wednesday,

and where we stand is we do not know

who the next president of the United States is going to be.

You are looking probably at the same polls.

We are, as it stands now. The electoral votes are

fairly evenly divided. There are questions about half a dozen states that could

tip the election one way or another notably Arizona

Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania North Carolina Georgia and I think that's those are the ones right I'm Michigan miss Michigan

no you miss Michigan okay yeah and as we look this morning Emily what does it look like to you

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