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the Bulw Works Weekly Roundtable discussion

featuring Civil Conversation across the political spectrum.'s weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation

across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork,

and I am joined by our regulars, Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter,

Notes from the Middle Ground, Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal

and the Brookings Institution,

Linda Chavez, who is of the Niskanin Center,

and our special guest this week.

Chris Saliza, who writes the sub-stack newsletter,

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First topic that I'd like to address today is one that you, Chris, have outlined in your great sub-stack, namely the special election in New York that was supposed to be neck and neck.

The polling suggested, and of course in these kinds of races,

polling is never quite that great.

Nobody's got the money to pay for expensive pollings, but it was suggesting that they were basically

neck and neck. And what happened was you had Tom Swazi, the Democrat, win by eight points.

So you wrote a piece about what we should and shouldn't take away from this.

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