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I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod pod, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history,

literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

We are at episode 95.

Your headline.

A day that will live in.

Oh, my mind naturally goes to one word in particular.

Yes, infamy about Pearl Harbor.

And we know now that FDR wrote that in himself.

That was his word.

Not the speechwriter. I'm speaking, of the

anniversary of Trump's election. We don't know what word that it will be. Will it be a day that

will live in pride and shame and infamy.

We don't know.

Certainly it looks pretty bad at this point.

And we just have got started.

So on that anniversary, it's sort of a time to look back.

And political science quarterly, after a year after every election, the presidential and congressional elections, does a big peer review take on the election by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at UCAL, San Diego.

It's sort of a place where election mavens go for sort of bottom line facts and

truth because it's so thickly documented.

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