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Slack.com slash DHQ. Oh my God. Excuse you, Galen. I think it's around election season.

I get really burpy. I'm like nervous. It's also your birthday season. So I don't know.

Confounders right there. I just got to be real notification. Should I be real on

podcast? Yeah, totally. We were just talking about this yesterday.

Oh, it took it real quick. So you guys are like fully blinking, but that's real. That's

being real. Cool. Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Twerp. There

are just days until Election Day. And the Race for the Senate is still on a knife's edge

and Republicans have a clear advantage in the House. Our final pre-election model talk

episode will come out on Monday. But today, we're going to focus on some aspects of the

election that get beyond the numbers. First, what can we actually expect from Election Day?

When will the polls close and where can we expect some early indicators of how the

night is going? Next, what are the issues that have been driving this election in the

battleground states and districts and what are both parties closing arguments? We're going

to try to answer that by looking at the types of campaign ads that the two parties are

pouring the most money into. That means get ready to hear some political ads. I hope

you're not sick of them yet. And lastly, after two years of casting doubt or straight up

denying the legitimacy of the 2020 election, where are candidates who haven't acknowledged

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