Roundup: Demographics, Voter Trends, & Political Alignment
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Miles Parks, political reporter Elena Moore, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:23.2 | I'm about to go have a pint at the Green Dragon. |
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| 0:27.8 | 1237 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, November 22nd. |
| 0:31.9 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 0:34.2 | but I would still be waiting for some dwarves to invite me on a quest to find some gold. |
| 0:42.8 | This is so exciting. Kelly, our producer, said she was going to give me a Lord of the Rings |
| 0:46.6 | timestamp at some point down the road, and I've just been waiting for it, and it finally happened. |
| 0:51.7 | Let's go. That's pretty cool. |
| 0:58.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. More than two weeks after Election Day, we are still learning about exactly what happened. And it is challenging some early assumptions. Today on the show, |
| 1:12.7 | voter turnout and demographics. Domenico, with almost all of the votes now counted, can I just ask, |
| 1:19.7 | was this a red wave up and down the ballot? You know, how big was Trump's win in the end? |
| 1:26.8 | You know, clearly Donald Trump was able to sweep the seven big states that everyone had |
| 1:31.5 | been talking about. |
| 1:32.7 | He won them by a little bit wider margins than the polls had indicated coming in. |
| 1:37.4 | So he clearly had a sweep in a time when we're hyper-polarized and partisanship is very deep |
| 1:44.1 | and we're very divided. |
| 1:45.2 | He was able to win. And it looks like he'll be close to a majority of the votes, which he's |
| 1:50.0 | never been before to win the popular vote. So when it comes to Trump, that's about as good as he |
| 1:55.3 | could have hoped for. Now, when you look further down the ballot, it wasn't necessarily the |
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