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The Day After: Insights in the Election from Some of the People Who Actually Called It Correctly

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The midterms turned out exceptionally well for Democrats and in the process David, Simon, and Tara's analysis from last week was vindicated! The team reconvenes with Tom Bonier of TargetSmart to talk about the races that have already been called and the vote that is still left outstanding. What are the key takeaways from last night? Is this a victory for Democrats or just better than expectations? Is GenZ the most important generation politically now? Find out in this thoughtful discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:31.0

Hello and welcome to a special post-election edition of the podcast with our team that has been with us all along leading up to the election and has been pretty uncanny in some of their predictions as we will explore.

1:46.0

The team includes Simon Rosenberg, Simon as the president of NDN and the new policy institute. How you doing, Simon?

1:55.0

I'm good. I'm better today, damn it. I'm better today.

1:58.0

You know, you've maintained your mood throughout all of this. And judging from the response and Twitter that I've watched the best few days, you've maintained a lot of people's mood running up to this, which is a good thing.

2:10.0

We also have Tara McGowan, Tara as the CEO and founder of Good Information and the publisher of Courier Newsroom. How are you doing, Tara?

2:19.0

Hi, David. I'm like Simon. I'm feeling good. We were talking earlier. I'm working off of adrenaline right now, but there's a lot of good stuff to talk about today.

2:28.0

Does that mean you didn't get enough sleep?

2:30.0

I never get enough sleep, but certainly not last night. I think I'm probably in good company in this group.

2:35.0

And we're also joined by Tom Bonnier. Tom is veteran Democratic political strategist and CEO of Target Smart. And he was with us a few days ago talking about early voting, which turned out to be a great way to understand this, even when the

2:54.0

Punditocracy was getting it wrong. Are you doing Tom?

2:59.0

Well, if we're comparing notes, I'm working on about two hours sleep, but I'm not wearing the clothes. I was wearing all day yesterday and all night last night, so I consider it a win.

3:08.0

We consider it a win too. And our glad that you are here with us. Let me start with you, Simon.

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