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Without our members, there is no podcast, not to mention that I'm out of a job. Thank you so much for listening and supporting us. We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast with K. Rika. night, we finally kicked it off.

We had the Iowa Caucasus.

We actually were no longer like,

can't believe the 2024 presidential starts in only one year or it's only a few months away we're in it we

actually kicked it off last night and as I think is not surprising a certain degree of

anti-climax to it. I'll be honest with you. The day of, you know, since we had the holiday

weekend and all this stuff, I had a moment on Monday where I heard some news coverage and I was like

wait no no wait what do you mean tonight? It's tomorrow, right?

Because you know, you kind of think of elections

are supposed to be on Tuesdays and stuff like that.

And, you know, I'm kind of in this business, right?

So there's a certain level of anti-climax to it.

Obviously, we only had a contest on the Republican side

because these early white people, rural states

that have dominated the, you know, dominated the game for basically about half a century,

which is the entire history of the modern primary and caucus process where it's determined by elections as opposed to sort of party

leaders only been going on 50 years but that's forever in these terms they've been

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