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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GAMFEST.

For October 3rd, 2014, the Jump The Fence edition on David Flotz, the editor at large of Slate,

I'm in Washington, DC.

On this week's show, why is President Obama being protected by mall cops?

We'll try to figure that out.

Then is Mitt Romney actually a credible candidate for President in 2016?

Or is this just some elaborate prank pulled by a few people in the chattering classes?

And then the weird Kansas Senate race in which a guy who will not say what he believes could tip the Senate toward the Democrats

and they're going to lose everything else everywhere else, plus we'll have cocktail chatter,

and a great Slate Plus segment today.

Wow, it's a good Slate Plus segment. I just listened to it.

I'm about to launch this podcast where I interview people about their jobs.

And today we're going to tease it with an interview with Stephen Colbert,

bits of my interview with Stephen Colbert, in which he talks about how he gets himself into character as Stephen Colbert.

It's a fantastic segment.

It's a really, really interesting. He's such a good talker.

And you can listen to that if you're a Slate Plus member, which you can become.

If you go to Slate.com slash GAMFEST plus or if you email me directly,

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