President Joe Biden???
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Professor Nate Persily of Stanford-MIT's HealthyElections.org joins the Gabfest to discuss vote counting and election lawsuits. Emily, John and David also discuss Democrats’ down-ballot disappointments, and the problems with polling.
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Adam Liptak for the New York Times: “Supreme Court Weighs Legacy of Same-Sex Marriage Case”
John: Margaret McAleer for the Library of Congress Blog: “The Taft Papers and a Titanic Tragedy”
David: Katie Pickens for Eater: “Watch: How Benton’s Makes Its Perfectly Smoky Bacon”
Listener chatter from @ionictonic: Twisted Sifter: “This Animation of How Bridges Were Constructed in 14th Century Prague is Amazing”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 5th, 2020, the President Joe Biden, question mark, question mark, question mark edition. |
| 0:15.4 | I am David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C. I'm joined from New York, from maybe the studios of CBS by CBS News is John Dickerson. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, John. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey, David. |
| 0:30.2 | And from New Haven from her home office, cozy home office by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:40.9 | Hey, David. |
| 0:41.4 | Ooh, the garbage truck stopped just so I could say hello to you. |
| 0:44.7 | Oh, how nice. |
| 0:46.1 | On today's Gab Fest. |
| 0:49.3 | I mean, guess what we're talking about? |
| 0:52.4 | We're just talking about the election. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, first topic, |
| 0:54.9 | we will talk to Nate Persley, the excellent Stanford law professor, about the legal challenges |
| 1:00.4 | to this election and what may happen with some of the legal issues that have been raised by |
| 1:06.5 | President Trump and his supporters and how those will play out in the coming months. Then we will |
| 1:12.7 | talk about why Democrats did so poorly and Republicans did so well down ballot. And should Democrats |
| 1:19.0 | be delighted if Biden manages to eke out this election or should they be mournful because they |
| 1:25.6 | did not capture the Senate? They lost seats in the House and they did not do well in state elections either. And why did that happen? |
| 1:32.8 | And then we'll talk about the polls. Were the polls really wrong? Is polling doomed? |
| 1:38.9 | What do we make of this quadrenial autopsy and exorcism around polling. Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:46.9 | It is 8.20 Eastern time on Thursday morning. You know the state we're in. You know better than we do |
| 1:54.4 | what state we're in with the presidential election. As we're looking at it, Michigan and Wisconsin |
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