Takeaways From Democrats’ Election Wins Up And Down The Ballot
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, political reporter Stephen Fowler, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:19.3 | Hi, this is Madeline from Sarasota, Florida. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm currently at Thursday Night Bowling League, where we are down one game of our three games. |
| 0:30.6 | This podcast was recorded at 12.40 p.m. on Friday, November 7th, 2020. |
| 0:36.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully we'll win this game, |
| 0:40.6 | and then we'll go to dinner afterwards. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:47.6 | Strike. Dinner afterwards. You need the bacon cheeseburger at the bowling alley. |
| 0:52.4 | And two pictures of course light, right? I mean, come on, right? |
| 0:54.9 | That was such a miles-coded timestamp. Rex Sports, Sarasota, Florida. Like, these are my thing. Hey, there's three of us in here. You know what that means? We just need one more for a fourth. We've got a team. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Bowling podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Stephen Fowler. |
| 1:11.7 | I cover politics. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And we are going to talk politics today. But first, we just got to say happy birthday, Stephen. Oh, thank you. To who? It's a Stephen. To Stephen. I am 32 years young. Happy to be here. No place I'd rather be on my birthday. All right, well, today on the show, |
| 1:28.3 | because we have you both here, we are going full election nerd. Earlier this week, we talked about |
| 1:32.9 | the main headlines, the Virginias, the New Jersey's, the California redistrictings. But today, |
| 1:38.7 | we are going down ballot. Stephen, you were watching a lot of these races that not everyone was talking about on Wednesday morning. Get us up to speed. |
| 1:47.2 | So down the ballot across the country, across the ideological spectrum, Democrats did well in these races, too. In Georgia, there were special elections for the Public Service Commission, which is the five-person state utility regulator. These elections |
| 2:03.3 | have been canceled for a few years because of lawsuits over how those districts were crafted |
| 2:08.6 | and who got to vote for them. So long story short, there were two statewide elections on |
| 2:14.1 | otherwise municipal, sleepy, like mayor here, county here elections, and a lot of people showed up, and most of them were Democrats. |
| 2:22.5 | In fact, Miles, for Georgia being such a purple state, this one wasn't even close. |
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