Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Monday, November 16, 2020. I am John

Pudhord. The editor of commentary magazine excited to inform you that we will be closing our December

issue today and we will have material from it up tomorrow and Wednesday, including a really,

really, really excellent post-election analysis by our own associate editor, Noa Rothman Hainoa.

Hi John, thank you very much. A terrific piece by senior writer Christine Rosen,

Hykristine. Hi John. And a review of Rod Rears Live Not By Lies by our executive editor,

Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. And with us today, we are so excited to have one of our favorite

guests, superstar, you know, sort of like the superstar of the election season, MSNBC Steve

Kornacki. Hi Steve. Hi John, thanks for having me back. Okay Steve, with all this really amazing

news this morning about the Moderna vaccine following on the Pfizer vaccine, the Moderna vaccine

apparently 94% effective according to the first trials and wildly useful because unlike the

Pfizer vaccine, it doesn't have to be stored at negative 94 degrees Fahrenheit or something or

Celsius or something which suggests that its distribution will be vastly easier and less cumbersome.

Do you see this having any effect on the, let's say if we look at if we consider sort of the

political mood of the country and the wake of the election, is there any way to say the quantifier

imagine what do's like this can do for the national mood? Wait it's a good question because

I'm still trying to figure out not just how but whether COVID actually affected the election in the

first place. You know, it's strange to me just given how obviously this has changed to all of our

lives. We could stipulate I think all of that yet. I wonder if an election that took place without

COVID ever happening would have looked any different in terms of the turnout, the result, the

breakdown of the votes than it actually did. So on the one hand, I kind of think politics maybe

just kind of continues as it's continued. But on the other hand, I look at how some of the major

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