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Pantsuit Politics

The Briefcase: Elections Around the World

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

From Georgia to Turkey to Great Britain, important elections are taking place at home in abroad.

0:05.0

We'll discuss what these elections do and don't reveal along with listener feedback.

0:10.0

This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right.

0:13.0

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

0:15.0

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:30.0

Hi everybody, welcome to another episode of the Briefcase.

0:46.0

We're excited to have you listening with us.

0:49.0

If you are in the Washington, DC area next week, I'm going to be there.

0:53.0

I'm actually going to Vox Conversations this year.

0:56.0

Sarah went last year and I'm super excited to be there.

1:00.0

So on April 26, next Wednesday, I am happy to meet with some listeners for dinner around 8 o'clock.

1:07.0

If you would like to meet with me and other Pantsuit Politics listeners, just shoot me an email,

1:11.0

Beth at PantsuitPoliticsShow.com.

1:13.0

We'll be somewhere near Studio Theater. That's where the Vox Conference is.

1:18.0

But I will pick a restaurant and make reservations based on how many people are coming.

1:21.0

So I hope that you'll come out and meet me and most importantly, other people who participate in this community.

1:28.0

So lots of electoral excitement this week.

1:32.0

Yeah, I thought we were kind of done with elections for a while, but no.

1:36.0

They keep popping up.

1:38.0

I was watching the one in Georgia with the runoff election for the Tom Price seat and a district that price carried by 23 points.

1:48.0

I really thought John Offset was going to get the Democrat was going to get over 50% and there wasn't going to have to be another election, but alas, it didn't happen.

1:58.0

Well, this was a weird one because so many people ran.

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