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The TPM Show with Josh and Kate
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Josh and Kate discuss the major takeaways after a night of high-profile primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and elsewhere across the country.
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| 0:30.0 | Hi, this is Josh Marshall and this is the Josh Marshall podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | We had primary elections across the country last night. |
| 0:50.6 | Maybe you were up seeing what was happening in real time. |
| 0:55.4 | You know, when I do this, I tend to follow these things on Twitter and I have a curated |
| 1:02.4 | list of election numbers people who I follow because, you know, if you make good judgments |
| 1:14.4 | in your life, you would know that there's really no point in watching on election. |
| 1:18.2 | I just get up in the next morning and see what happened, right? |
| 1:21.0 | But for people like me and maybe like you, that's not how it works. |
| 1:24.9 | You know, why you're watching the results come in good question, but we do. |
| 1:30.5 | And so what I always want is there are, there is a certain class of people who election |
| 1:38.5 | watchers who know pretty much every state and every district and the different counties |
| 1:47.4 | and districts and stuff like that. |
| 1:49.6 | So as results come in, maybe there's only, you know, 4% in, but if they're from certain |
| 1:58.5 | counties or certain areas or certain, you know, certain specifics, you can glean a lot. |
| 2:05.3 | And you know, maybe 20% of the results are in and one person's behind, but if you know |
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