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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias here with Jane Kostin, Pro Publicas, Darryl Lind.

We are on the verge of Christmas, New Years, and then the glorious end of the holiday season,

the Iowa caucuses. And wanted to talk, I think not so much exactly about the state of the race

as it currently stands, but about the splendor of deciding to choose presidential nominees in this

way because it's a little odd. I mean, if you look at national polls, Joe Biden has just like a big

lead. You know, it's obvious. If the primary were a week from today, like Joe Biden would win.

But the primary isn't a week from today, instead like a month from today, there's going to be

caucuses in Iowa. And if you look at the Iowa caucus polling, it's quite close. And then if you

ask the like fancy stat modellers, they think that whoever wins in Iowa will likely get a big bump

in the polls. The New Hampshire polling is not quite as close as Iowa, but it's also pretty close.

So if Biden, if Buttigieg, if Sanders, if Warren wins Iowa, they would probably also be favored in

New Hampshire, which gives you a further bump. And then you get into the complexities of Nevada and

South Carolina. And then when people talk about South Carolina, they're like, oh, that's totally

different because of black people. Because black people live there, right? And right. And then

that's the thing is like fundamentally the reason it's so much closer in Iowa than nationwide

is that Biden has a huge lead with African Americans. And there are no black people in Iowa.

And this doesn't strike me. I'm not like a Joe Biden stan, but like in principle, that doesn't

seem like a good reason for the race to be closed. In general, it strikes me that presidential

primaries are one of those things where if you're paying attention to the infrastructure, like that's

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