Thankful for Swing Voters (with Amy Walter)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The midterms have come and gone, and it turns out many of our focus groups were signs of things to come. Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Political Report, joins Sarah for a look back at this year's groups.
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| 0:43.4 | Welcome to the focus group podcast. I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of the bulwark and this week we're doing our |
| 0:47.8 | 2022 election wrap up with a bit of a focus group retrospective |
| 0:53.2 | going into election day, much of the conventional pundit wisdom crescendoed into prognostications |
| 0:59.2 | of a big red wave. |
| 1:01.7 | But if you were listening to the focus group podcast, you weren't that |
| 1:04.8 | surprised by the little red trickle we ended up getting. We're going to talk about |
| 1:09.7 | why so many of the races we have been following all year ended up breaking the way they did and we're |
| 1:15.2 | going to revisit past episodes that were signs of things to come just like when you know |
| 1:20.7 | sitcoms used to do that thing where they'd cut together all the best clips. |
| 1:24.2 | That's basically what we're going to do today. |
| 1:26.3 | And my guest today is a three-peater, Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report. |
| 1:33.5 | Amy, my friend, thank you for being here. |
| 1:35.3 | Is this the first three-peater? |
| 1:37.2 | Do I get a jacket? |
| 1:38.2 | You are. |
| 1:39.2 | You are, you're always leading the pack. |
| 1:40.8 | I am so proud to be in that club. Thank you so much and yes I'll be |
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