Slate Plus Special: Counting the Votes
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Wednesday, November 4th, 2020, the Counting the Votes edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I am David Plots of CityCast. I'm in Washington, D.C.C. I'm actually pretty well rested because I made the wise decision to take a sleeping pill at 11 o'clock |
| 0:26.6 | and just get through the hard, dark night of the soul. |
| 0:32.5 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School in New Haven, or maybe in Philadelphia. |
| 0:39.6 | She looks okay. |
| 0:40.9 | Did you sleep, Emily? |
| 0:42.4 | I slept fine. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.9 | Well, no, I should take that back. |
| 0:45.6 | I slept. |
| 0:46.9 | And John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes CBS News looks really good because he's dressed for success and for television. |
| 0:56.0 | But John, you, I think, had the longest night. |
| 0:58.7 | Have you slept at all? |
| 0:59.9 | That's for sure. |
| 1:01.5 | I slept from about four to six, which is the worst kind of sleep of all, because you get just enough REM sleep so that you're absolutely |
| 1:13.7 | pulled from the grave when you wake up. And then I had to go on TV, so that was... I know you guys |
| 1:21.5 | have tuned in to hear us talk about our sleep. So that was a good show. Yeah. We'll talk to you |
| 1:24.8 | later. So we're taping. It is now exactly 8.30 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday. |
| 1:31.1 | On Wednesday, yes, on Wednesday. |
| 1:33.3 | And where we stand is we do not know who the next president of the United States is going to be. |
| 1:39.1 | You are looking probably at the same polls we are. |
| 1:41.2 | As it stands now, the electoral votes are fairly evenly divided. |
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