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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Scottish teams who are making bets. Maybe they've stopped now to all trade game spot. |
0:05.7 | Game stop. Game stop. I'm sorry. There is a website called Game Spot, so extremely confusing. |
0:19.8 | Hello and welcome to the 530 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Druke. |
0:24.0 | I'm Nate Silver and this is Model Talk. All right, this is our long-lost post-Georgia Model Talk |
0:37.4 | episode. As listeners well know, the real end of the 2020 election, those double-sendet runoffs in |
0:44.4 | Georgia, were eclipsed by the attack on the Capitol and we've been covering the fallout of that ever |
0:51.0 | since. So today, we're going to take the opportunity to look back on what happened in those two |
0:56.4 | elections. We'll also try to set some expectations for the electoral environment of the next two years. |
1:02.8 | That's in large part going to be dictating how lawmakers behave. And by the way, related to that, |
1:08.4 | we launched our approval rating tracker for President Biden today, which you can go check out on |
1:13.2 | the website, he begins at 54% approve, 35% disapprove. But Nate, before we get to any of that, |
1:22.8 | I have to ask you, did you manage to sell off all of your game stop stock before it crashed today? |
1:29.0 | You know, I should be like in the core fascination point for the story. I've been kind of not |
1:34.6 | paying as much attention as I should, but yeah, I did not get in on the game stop bubble. |
1:39.9 | We're not going to spend too much time on this, but what is your 90 second take on the takeaway |
1:45.6 | from the game stop debacle? I mean, LLL efficient market hypothesis. I don't know. My takeaways, |
1:53.9 | I want to PS5. I want to PS5 and I want to f***ing COVID vaccine, Damon. I've been waiting a long |
2:02.4 | time for both of those. If you could only have one, which one would it be? The f***ing vaccine. I mean, |
2:09.2 | come on. Yeah, I'm kidding, but you know, yeah. All right. So let's get to the matter at hand |
2:15.0 | as much fun as the game stop story has been. So in the end, Raphael Warnock beat Kelly leftler by |
2:22.0 | two points. John Assoff beat David Perdue by 1.2 points. This all seems like years ago at this point. |
2:28.3 | But from a nuts and bolts perspective, why did Warnock and Assoff win those two elections? |
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