That's the Ticket Episode 3: The Decision
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On the third, and final, installment of That's the Ticket, Dan and Alyssa talk about what factors a candidate has to consider once they've vetted potential VPs, how the vice presidential announcement process has evolved over time, and finally who they think Biden will pick. Dan also talks to Perry Bacon Jr., a senior writer from FiveThirtyEight, about what polling does and doesn't tell us about the impact of a VP pick.
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| 0:00.0 | Is that your cat? |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, I shouldn't have woke him up. |
| 0:09.0 | Sorry, that's count. |
| 0:10.0 | No, no, no, no, I'm just joking. |
| 0:11.0 | He wouldn't have done it anyway. |
| 0:12.0 | I just threw him some toys. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome back to the third and sadly final episode of That's A Ticket. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Dan Fyfer. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm a list of Master Monaco. |
| 0:40.0 | Today's episode we're going to talk about what factors candidates consider once they have |
| 0:43.5 | vetted potential options, how they announce their decision and who we think Biden might pick. |
| 0:49.0 | Along the way we're going to talk about Dan Quayles' gaps, so much material there, and some |
| 0:53.3 | of the most memorable moments in Vice Presidential debate history, as well as some more of my campaign |
| 0:58.4 | trail antics. |
| 0:59.4 | Later in the pod I'm going to talk to Senior Writer at 538, Perry Bacon Jr. about what the |
| 1:04.0 | polling tells us and doesn't tell us about the politics of Biden's choice. |
| 1:07.0 | I'll let's see how you doing. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, Buddy, first can we talk about last episode? |
| 1:12.0 | Sure. |
| 1:13.0 | And how last week, we talked about Sarah Palin and we talked about Geraldine Ferraro |
| 1:19.0 | and we really talked about Ferraro being picked as the first Democratic woman on a Democratic |
| 1:24.8 | ticket. |
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