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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast for Wednesday October 21st,

2020 October 21st, a very big day in the Pud Horits household as this is the

64th anniversary of my parents, Nore and Pud Horits and Midge Dector 64 years

married. And if you go to Commentary Magazine.com, as I've been mentioning all

week, you can read a conversation between me and my father, Nore and Pud Horits,

on the joys and sorrows and terrors and responsibilities of editing

commentary magazine in our 75th anniversary issue. So with that, let me

introduce as always, Associate Editor-in-Aryn O'Roughman, Hainoa.

Hi John. Executive Editor-Aryn Walde, Hain.

Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hain Christine.

Hi John. And joining us today are old pal MSNBC's Steve

Kornacki, the Sephologian. You're not really a Sephologian. Are you a

poll analyst? Does that make you a Sephologist? Oh boy, if I knew what a

Sephologist was, I might have a chance of knowing the answer. Well, I believe the

answer is a Sephologist is some form of a poll analyst or a statistics

analyst. So you're not yourself a pollster, but you are like one of the one

of the guys who dives deep into these matters. And we're really excited to

talk to you because of course, here we are. We are 13 days before election day.

And we're in this unprecedented situation where I don't know, 35, 36,

37 million people have already voted. I believe, which is what is that

that's like a fifth of the maybe the overall turnout or between a fifth

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