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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.

For the 21st of May, I'm John Dickerson, here in Washington, D.C., with David Plotz, and to my left is Emily

Bazelon in a rare Washington appearance for which we are all deeply grateful.

To your left in all respects, I think.

I think that's a good point.

I'm being categorized.

I feel about that.

Though I'm oddly to your left, Emily, and that doesn't make sense.

No, yeah. Though I'm oddly to your left, Emily, and that doesn't make any sense. No. Well, ideologically, if we positioned you, I'm not sure we'd have a room in this dimension.

So we're all very excited because two things.

One, we had political results from actual elections this week, and that's going to dominate the show.

We won't really break it into topics, although we do have some vague plan about how we're going to proceed. But before we do so,

David's got a brief announcement. Hey, Gapest listeners in the Mid-Atlantic region. As you

hopefully know, we're going to be in Philadelphia for a live show next week, May 27th, Thursday

night at 7 p.m. at the Friends Center. Is that right?

Yes, the Meeting House downtown. The Friends Meeting House downtown. It's going to be a great show.

A lot of you have already signed up for tickets, but we would love to see more of you there.

So please, if you're interested, go to Eventbright, B-R-I-T-E, eventbrite.

Dot Philly GabFest.com, and buy tickets and come see us, and we're really looking forward to it.

And we're going to have, you know, dancing ponies and all kinds of dancing ponies, although alcohol is not allowed in a meeting house, dancing ponies are allowed in the meeting house. It's a strange part of the George Fox. Is it George Fox? Yes. Tradition to have dancing ponies.

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