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Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest.

0:07.5

I'm John Dickerson here with Emily Bazelon and David Plotz.

0:10.5

Today we're going to talk about the Pennsylvania primary and politics.

0:14.9

We're also then going to talk about world food crisis.

0:18.9

And then the third topic is going to be the autism pander. We're going to come back to

0:22.8

politics, how the candidates are all pandering on the question of whether vaccines lead to autism.

0:28.5

And cocktail chatter. And then we're going to end. We're going to if vaccines lead to cocktail

0:33.5

chatter, which in this case it will. David, you have in the past, when we've talked about

0:38.0

the superdelegates versus the pledged delegates and the fight that's inevitably going to arrive

0:42.3

in the Democratic Party, you've stuck up for the superdelegate system. So what I want to ask you

0:46.6

is in that context, did the superdelegates get more data for their argument if they're going to

0:51.7

overthrow the momentum that Barack Obama has among the

0:54.9

pledged delegates.

0:56.1

From the Pennsylvania, from Hillary's a nine-point Pennsylvania victory.

0:59.8

Thank you, yes.

1:00.9

9.2, yes.

1:02.1

Well, I mean, it's another point of information.

1:05.7

It's more, it's another data set.

1:08.1

I assume that all the pledged delegates who have not announced their commitments are,

1:12.9

you know, know, know, they know who they want to support and they're just, you know,

1:15.5

they're, it's not that they don't know who they support. Let me say that. But they have some

1:21.5

strategic reason for not announcing it. And I, you know, I'm totally incoherent on this subject. Emily, why don't you answer this question while I think about it.

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